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A huge portion of the United States is going to be hit with snow or freezing rain this weekend. Exactly where, what, and how much remains uncertain... View Source

The announcement came out of the blue, from Blue, on Wednesday. The space company founded by Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin, said it was developing a new megaconstellation named TeraWave to deliver data speeds of up to 6Tbps anywhere on Earth. The constellation will consist of 5,408 optically interconnected satellites, with a majority in low-Earth orbit and the remainder in medium-Earth orbit. The satell... View Source

Custom blocking tools have replaced brute-force shutdowns... View Source

Threads has grown enough for Meta to fully integrate it into its advertising machine. On Wednesday, the company said that, with the platform now hosting 400 million monthly active users, ads are expanding globally to all users. The inevitable move follows a test in 30 countries early last year.Ads on Threads are powered by Meta's AI-powered advertising system. They'll use the "same... View Source

4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s Cross Flow Attenuated Natural Laminar Flow test article is mounted beneath the agency’s F-15 research aircraft ahead of the design’s high-speed taxi test on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2026, at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. The 3-foot-tall scale model is designed to increase a phenomenon k... View Source

The photos were taken during a severe G4 geomagnetic storm, one of the strongest in years... View Source

The network will be designed for enterprise, data center, and government customers and could offer an alternative to SpaceX's Starlink service... View Source

The images in the background serve as covers for each song on The Eleven Album. | Image: ElevenLabs / The Verge ElevenLabs has released an album of AI-generated songs in its latest attempt to separate itself from the ethical concerns surrounding AI music. The Eleven Album aims to showcase "how artists can use AI to expand their creative range while maintaining full authorship and commercial rights... View Source

Hyundai Motor Co. overtook General Motors Co. as the world’s fourth-most valuable automaker as the South Korean firm’s robotics push fuels a blistering stock rally... View Source

Amazon is introducing an AI-powered assistant to One Medical, the tech-forward primary care provider it acquired in 2023. Dubbed 'Health AI,' Amazon says the tool "provides 24/7 personalized health guidance based on your medical records." The company says Health AI can explain lab results, help manage medications, and book appointments for patients. Amazon also says it can... View Source

Bungie's next game returns with a new in-engine trailer and more details ahead of its long-awaited release... View Source

It looks like Samsung is preparing to launch a new Qi2 battery pack for the upcoming Galaxy S26, which is rumored to support the upgraded charging standard. A report from Winfuture shows off leaked images of what appears to be the new accessory, outfitted with a magnetic Qi2 charging ring that delivers up to 15W of power, along with a USB-C cable offering up to 20W. Winfuture suggests that the wir... View Source

Preply, an online marketplace for learning languages, raised $150 million in a funding round, almost tripling its valuation to $1.2 billion... View Source

Two high-profile upcoming Ubisoft games have been starting to look more and more like vaporware with each passing year. One of them is Beyond Good & Evil 2, which we were assured is still in development last year. The other is the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake, which is now officially canceled, along with five other games on Ubisoft’s release slate. The news came in a media briefi... View Source

NASA/Sam Lott This Jan. 17, 2026, image shows NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft rolling out of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s massive Crawler-Transporter, upgraded for the Artemis program, carries the powerful SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft to Launch Pad 39B in preparation for the Artemis II mission. Moving at a maximum sp... View Source

Volvo's EX60, with fast-charging capabilities and a brand-new electric architecture, made its official debut today, with the Swedish automaker positioning the crossover EV as a new direction for its battery-powered lineup. With up to 400 miles of estimated range and an 800-volt architecture for ultra-fast charging, the EX60 feels like a concerted effort by Volvo to address some of the most common... View Source

Sony Group Corp. introduced its latest pair of consumer earbuds, with a clip-on design that resembles recent efforts from Bose Corp., Lenovo Group Ltd.’s Motorola unit and Huawei Technologies Co... View Source

Elon Musk is reportedly looking to finally take SpaceX public after years of resistance, according to sources who spoke to The Wall Street Journal. The company has long said it wouldn't choose an IPO until it had established a presence on Mars. That isn't happening anytime soon. So why now? Company insiders have suggested it's because Musk wants to build AI data centers in spac... View Source

With a host of exciting new Marvel and Star Wars releases landing this year, Disney Plus is the streaming subscription to have in 2026 and now it's a third cheaper with this UK-only deal... View Source

Ubisoft is announcing a major reorganization, and with the changes, it's refocusing its portfolio and canceling some games, including the beleaguered remake of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. With the reorganization, Ubisoft will focus its efforts on big open worlds and live service games. In the new structure, which goes into effect in April, Ubisoft's new operating model will "be structured... View Source

One of OpenAI’s top executives defended the company’s addition of ads to its popular chatbot ChatGPT as a way to democratize access to artificial intelligence... View Source

I vividly remember when Bose announced the Ultra Open Earbuds. While I applauded the company for trying something different, I wasn’t sure if the clip-on design would take hold. Well, here we are almost two years later and most earbud makers now have something akin to Bose’s fashion experiment. You can now count Sony among those as the company revealed its LinkBuds Clip ($230) open-fit earbuds tod... View Source

A sample of a polymetallic nodule at the Viridian Biometals lab in Pasadena, California. | Photo: Getty Images The Trump administration took the next step toward unilaterally jumpstarting deep-sea mining this week, announcing a "consolidated" permitting process for both searching for and commercially extracting minerals that have so far remained relatively untouched. These minerals are found so de... View Source

GE Vernova CEO Scott Strazik discusses the future of energy and the impact of the AI boom at the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

YouTube is just as wary of the rise of AI slop as you, and that’s why more AI-generated content is coming to the platform in the near future. In a lengthy blog post outlining YouTube’s 2026 plans, CEO Neal Mohan said the company will continue to embrace this new "creative frontier" by soon allowing its creators to throw together Shorts using their AI-generated likeness. Mohan didn’t elab... View Source

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The first emergency operation in the history of China's human spaceflight program ended on Jan. 19 when an uncrewed Shenzhou 20 capsule damaged by a space-junk strike came safely down to Earth... View Source

DJI’s Mic Mini makes vlogging on the go a little easier. If you want better audio than your phone can deliver while creating content on the go but a high-end wireless mic isn’t in the budget, DJI’s Mic Mini is worth a look. It’ll improve your audio without putting much of a dent in your wallet, especially today now you can buy it with a single mic and two transmitters for $59.99 ($20 off) at Amazo... View Source

ArcelorMittal SA and South Africa’s biggest development-finance institution have resumed talks over the potential acquisition of the Luxembourg-based steel giant’s operations in the African country, after failing to lure other suitors... View Source

Samsung’s 2025 was filled with new foldables, an ultra-thin new form factor and the launch of Google's XR platform. After making some announcements at CES 2026, the company is expected to host its first Galaxy Unpacked of the year in February to introduce the Galaxy S26 lineup.Engadget will be covering Galaxy Unpacked live, and we'll most likely have hands-on coverage of Samsung's n... View Source

It's been just one week since Verizon got permission to lift its 60-day phone unlocking period, and the carrier is already making changes to its policy. Now, Verizon says customers who activate a phone on one of its sub-brands, including Visible, TracFone, Straight Talk, and Total Wireless, will have to pay for service for 365 days before switching their phone to a different network, as spotted ea... View Source

India’s southern state of Andhra Pradesh is studying Australia’s ban on children under 16 years of age from using social media, its minister in charge of technology and human resources said Tuesday... View Source

Weber has been in the smart grilling game since 2020, dabbling in Wi-Fi connectivity for gas and pellet grills. It has also offered grillers a standalone option for its Weber Connect platform. For 2026, the company is expanding its smart grilling lineup to its original fuel source: charcoal. Today, Weber announced the Performer Smart Charcoal Grill and Kettle Smart Ring, both of which bring Weber... View Source

The Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, is a key spot for astronomers to study star formation... View Source

She set the record for most spacewalk time by a woman and spent nine months at the International Space StationSuni Williams, one of two Nasa astronauts whose 10-day test flight mission turned into a nine-month odyssey on the International Space Station (ISS), has retired from the US space agency.The 60-year-old former navy captain left in December after 27 years with Nasa, according to a press rel... View Source

Your YouTube Shorts feed might soon be filled with a lot more AI-generated content from your favorite creators - including AI-generated versions of the creators themselves. In his annual letter released today, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says that sometime this year, creators will be able to make Shorts using their "own likeness." Mohan didn't share further details about these likenesses. "We'll have m... View Source

YouTube Chief Executive Officer Neal Mohan said combating the rise of low-quality “AI slop” on the platform will be a top priority in 2026, emphasizing the need to embrace artificial intelligence while better safeguarding the video app and its users... View Source

If you're looking to expand the storage on your Switch 2, the 512GB Samsung P9 microSD Express card is on sale right now for 33 percent off, marked down to $80 from $120. With component prices skyrocketing these days, it's getting increasingly rare to see good storage on sale, and 512GB for $80 is a much better deal than you'll currently find directly from Nintendo. The P9 boasts tr... View Source

Generate Podcasts will let you listen to a summary of any documents you don’t have time to read. Adobe has added new generative AI features to Acrobat that aim to help you quickly edit PDFs and summarize them in audio and visual formats. These updates include chat-based editing and the ability to generate personalized podcasts and presentations based on your docs, which are now available in Acroba... View Source

Networking company raises $200 million just four months after previous round... View Source

Back in August, Adobe debuted Acrobat Studio. The new service saw Adobe bring the humble PDF into the 21st century with support for a handful of new genAI features, including PDF Spaces, a hub where you can upload up to 100 documents and have AI summarize them. Now the company is enhancing the capabilities of those hubs with the introduction of four new genAI features inside of Adobe Acrobat, Acro... View Source

Starfish Space just scored a $52.5 million contract to deorbit satellites for the U.S. Space Force, the first deal ever signed for such "end of life" disposal services for a constellation in low Earth orbit... View Source

What is an authentic photo? A couple of weeks ago, Adam Mosseri posted to his grid. In a series of messages, Instagram's top exec laid out his concerns for the platform in the coming year, largely around AI. The post was equal parts Working Through It, a sounding of alarms, and a rallying cry to creators who use the platform: AI is about to be everywhere on Instagram, and the best way to stand out... View Source

The boom in data-center development is changing the customer mix significantly for GE Vernova Inc., a key supplier of power-generation equipment... View Source

Microsoft has announced some solid additions to Game Pass this month, ranging from AAA titles to indies, including some of our favorites from 2024 and 2025. Topping the list is Death Stranding Director’s Cut, an extended version of Hideo Kojima’s 2019 sci-fi action game (now available). Other key inclusions are Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 (January 29) and puzzle game The Talos Principle 2 (Ja... View Source

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We're living in a pretty great time for detective games. Over the last few years, developers have been experimenting with all kinds of different ways of turning the act of investigation into a compelling game, which has led to the likes of Her Story, Return of the Obra Dinn, and the Golden Idol series, to name just a few. Now you can add TR-49 to that list - a game that builds on the genre by intr... View Source

Industry faces big changes, big risks in 2026... View Source

One of the disconcerting things about using a virtual private network (VPN) is that it can be hard to tell when it's doing its job. The best VPNs all work in the background to keep your IP address hidden and your communications with their servers encrypted. The better the VPN, the less you notice it, which can make a top-performing VPN feel (uncomfortably) like one that isn't working at... View Source

The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-11 mission will discuss their shorter-than-expected stay aboard the International Space Station today (Jan. 21), and you can watch it live... View Source

As artificial intelligence threatens to upends job markets in countries around the world, Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang brushed off longer term concerns and made the case that skilled vocational workers are seeing increasing demand now... View Source

On a blustery afternoon late last year, on the lawn just outside City Hall in Rowlett, Texas, a strange-looking craft cleared the trees just before me. It hovered overhead for a moment before lowering a second craft on a thin rope all the way to a parched patch of grass. The little, white thing deposited a brown paper payload, then rode its tether back up to its waiting mothership, which turned an... View Source

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the infrastructure around artificial intelligence will need trillions of dollars in additional investment over the coming years. He made the comments during a conversation with BlackRock’s Larry Fink at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

After testing the feature for the last six months or so, Netflix said it will bring vertical videos to its mobile app sometime later in 2026, TechCrunch reported. So far, the feature has been used to show clips promoting Netflix films and TV shows, letting you swipe to move to the next one à la TikTok or YouTube Shorts. Going forward, though, it could also serve as a promotion tool for new types o... View Source

Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket will try to become the first vehicle ever to reach orbit from European soil today (Jan. 21), and you can watch the action live... View Source

I'm not sure anyone saw this news coming, but the TV landscape as we know it could change considerably over the next year or two. Sony, the storied Japanese TV brand, has announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with its Chinese competitor TCL. This potential partnership - with TCL set to hold a 51 percent stake and Sony 49 percent - has prompted speculation across the internet a... View Source

Chinese authorities have fined PDD Holdings Inc. 100,000 yuan ($14,000) for failing to file essential tax documents in time, a modest penalty for a company that’s the target of a widening government probe... View Source

Workers are turning to chatbots to help them get through difficult conversations with their colleagues and business partners... View Source

OpenAI says it will minimize water use and pay for energy infrastructure upgrades needed to power its data centers. "We're being good neighbors," the company said, directly addressing the growing opposition to AI projects amid rising utility bills. "We commit to paying our own way on energy, so that our operations don't increase your electricity prices," OpenAI said. The company promised to work w... View Source

BlackRock Vice Chairman Philipp Hildebrand discusses the changing world order, Europe's role and the impact of the artificial intelligence boom on inflation. He speaks on Bloomberg Television at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Aurora lights shimmering over Earth were filmed on camera by Russia's space agency Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov from the International Space Station. The phenomenon is caused by solar storms emitting high-speed charged particles colliding with gases in Earth’s atmosphere. The most common colour seen during this display is green, although other colours such as pink and red are sometimes... View Source

Working out whether the artificial intelligence hype is justified is fundamental to judging whether the world faces the danger of more inflation, former central banker Philipp Hildebrand said... View Source

Age prediction is rolling out almost globally, with users in the EU getting it ‘in the coming weeks.’ OpenAI has added age prediction features to ChatGPT, meant to identify and bolster protections for underage users. These age detection plans were announced in December alongside updated guidelines for interacting with teens, and follow a rise in similar age-gating efforts from online platforms, in... View Source

A new analysis finds that data centers’ energy demands will drastically increase power plant emissions over the next decade. Renewables, though, could cut them while helping keep prices from rising... View Source

China’s Zhipu is limiting access to its coding assistant after strong demand for a new AI model siphoned off computing resources... View Source

Meta's Nicola Mendelsohn speaks to Bloomberg's Francine Lacqua on the regulatory regime in Europe. She says it makes it harder to roll out and adopt new AI products, and that business leaders are becoming increasingly frustrated. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Philippines said on Wednesday that it will restore access to the Grok artificial intelligence system after the company of tech billionaire Elon Musk promised to remove features that allow for creation of pornographic content... View Source

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

The new funding round comes as residential installations are declining across the bloc. ... View Source

Chinese stocks defied a pullback in global markets Wednesday, as optimism about Beijing’s stronger push to achieve technology self-reliance eclipsed concerns over rising geopolitical uncertainties... View Source

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung downplayed US threats of punishing tariffs on foreign-made chips, while reaffirming his commitment to existing trade agreements... View Source

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Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has set up an electricity generation venture with one of China’s leading nuclear conglomerates, a move that could help secure the immense power needed to run AI data centers... View Source

FULL CLEAN ManpowerGroup President Becky Frankiewicz (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos and Sundar Pichai attend the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. | Kenny Holston-Pool/Getty Images. Welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about the technology and the tech bros upending American politics and the Trump administration. If you're not a subscr... View Source

OpenAI said it will pay for the costs of developing energy-related infrastructure required by its Stargate data centers to address concerns the facilities may drive up consumers’ utility bills... View Source

Global money managers are warming up to shares of Indian software exporters again, as they gear their business toward artificial intelligence... View Source

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang is planning to travel to China in late January as he works to reopen a crucial market for his company’s artificial intelligence chips... View Source

Netflix reached an amended, all-cash agreement to buy Warner Bros. Discovery’s studio and streaming business as it battles Paramount Skydance. Geetha Ranganathan has more on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Artificial intelligence will displace so many jobs that it will eliminate the need for mass immigration, according to Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Alex Karp... View Source

Demis Hassabis, Google Deepmind CEO, just told the AI world that ChatGPT’s path needs a world model. OpenAI and Google and XAI and Anthropic are all using the LLM (Large Language Model Approach). Google Genie 3 system, released last August, generates interactive 3D environments from text. Here is my review of the state of the ... Read more... View Source

Defense Unicorns, the maker of secure military software, has raised a $136 million Series B financing round led by Bain Capital. The startup’s co-founder and CEO Rob Slaughter joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Snap Inc. has reached an agreement to settle a key plaintiff’s claims that the platform’s design led her to become addicted and caused her mental health problems... View Source

The Helix Nebula is one of the most well-known and commonly photographed planetary nebulae because it resembles the "Eye of Sauron." It is also one of the closest bright nebulae to Earth, located approximately 655 light-years from our Solar System. You may not know what this particular nebula looks like when reading its name, but the Hubble Space Telescope has taken some iconic images of it over t... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Netflix’s amended, all-cash offer to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming business. Plus, as tech leaders sit down with Bloomberg from Davos, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says Chinese AI firms are six months behind US frontier models. And, funding continues to pour into defense tech startups. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

January 20, 2026, SpaceX Ship 39 is in the final stages of outfitting in Mega Bay 2 at Starbase. Recent progress includes the installation of aft flaps. This is one of the last major steps before testing. Starship 39 and Booster 19 are needed to be completed and stacked to launch Starship Flight 12. What ... Read more... View Source

Netflix is working on a new mobile UI set to roll out later this year that will "better serve the expansion of our business over the decade to come," co-CEO Greg Peters said in an earnings call on Tuesday. The new mobile UI follows last year's big TV revamp that put a new banner front and center on the home screen recommending something to watch. With the TV revamp, former chief product officer Eu... View Source

Data centers that have lined up new electricity capacity for their facilities would get priority in connecting to the largest US power grid under a proposal by PJM Interconnection LLC... View Source

OpenAI is the latest company to hop on the bandwagon of gating access by users' age. The AI business is beginning a global rollout of an age prediction tool to determine whether or not a user is a minor. “The model looks at a combination of behavioral and account-level signals, including how long an account has existed, typical times of day when someone is active, usage patterns over time,and... View Source

The Space Shuttle Columbia Memorial is seen during a wreath laying ceremony that was part of NASA’s Day of Remembrance, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Wreaths were laid in memory of those men and women who lost their lives in the quest for space exploration.Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA will observe its annual Day of Remembrance on Thursday, Jan. 22, wh... View Source

The latest GDPNow USA GPD estimate is 5.3 percent — January 14, 2026. U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Tuesday he expected first quarter GDP growth in the United States would exceed 5% in the first quarter of 2026, adding that its interest rates were too high and were holding back stronger growth. The ... Read more... View Source

Netflix's advertising business more than doubled its advertising revenue to $1.5 billion from 2024 to 2025 - and it's on track to keep growing. "We expect that [advertising] business to roughly double again in '26 to about $3 billion," Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters said during an earnings call on Tuesday, hours ahead of its live viewer voting-enabled Star Search event. "We're making good progress, an... View Source

Seaport Research Partners Senior Analyst David Joyce breaks down Netflix's fourth-quarter results and explains why shares are trading lower on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Federal Trade Commission lost its antitrust case against Meta last year, but the regulator hasn't given up on its attempts to punish the social media company for its acquisitions of WhatsApp and Instagram. The FTC is appealing a ruling last year in which a federal judge found that the government hadn't proven that Meta is currently operating as a monopoly. "Meta has maintai... View Source

Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers working at the Social Security Administration (SSA) broke protocols, had more access to sensitive data on Americans than previously disclosed, and were in touch with a political advocacy group hunting for election fraud, the Trump administration admitted in a recent court filing. Justice Department officials told a federal court in Maryland that... View Source

Zipline, a drone delivery and logistics startup, has raised more than $600 million in new funding, boosting its valuation to $7.6 billion, as it expands commercial deployments... View Source

"I don't think anyone's made this connection between the surface fluid pattern and the interior properties of these planets."... View Source

Tesla aims to restart work on Dojo3, its previously abandoned third-generation AI chip. Only this time, Dojo3 won’t be aimed at training self-driving models on Earth. Instead, Musk says it will be dedicated to “space-based AI compute.”... View Source

The Federal Trade Commission will appeal its loss in a landmark antitrust case against Meta, the agency announced Tuesday. US District Court Judge James Boasberg ruled in November that the government failed to prove that Meta had an illegal monopoly over a subset of social networking services meant for connecting with friends and family online. Boasberg wrote that the government had an "uphill bat... View Source

Artificial intelligence startup Baseten Labs Inc. has raised $300 million at a $5 billion valuation, according to a person familiar with the matter... View Source

NASA astronaut Suni Williams at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Naval Ordnance Test Unit basin in Florida on March 28, 2018. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett After 27 years of service, NASA astronaut Suni Williams retired from the agency, effective Dec. 27, 2025. Williams completed three missions aboard the International Space Station, setting numerous human spaceflight records throughout her ca... View Source

Greg Yang, one of the co-founders of Elon Musk’s startup xAI, is stepping down from the company after being diagnosed with Lyme disease... View Source

NASA NASA announced Tuesday the selection of three new science investigations that will strengthen humanity’s understanding and exploration of the Moon. As part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, American companies will deliver these research payloads to the lunar surface no earlier than 2028. “With CLPS, NASA has been taking a new approach to... View Source

Bitcoin slid to its lowest level in more than a week. Wintermute CEO and co-founder Evgeny Gaevoy says that the recent crypto market cycles have defied expectations, driven in part by memecoin activity and growing investor preference for ETFs rather than direct speculation. On policy, Gaevoy says that he supports the current market-structure legislation as a necessary next step for crypto’s develo... View Source

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Last year, Nova Launcher founder and sole developer Kevin Barry announced he had left Branch Metrics, Nova's parent company at the time - which followed an announcement from 2024 that nearly everyone working on the project had been laid off. But the launcher is getting new life: in a blog post on Tuesday, the Swedish company Instabridge, which makes an app that helps people connect to Wi-FI hotspo... View Source

The US Federal Trade Commission will appeal a federal judge’s decision that Meta Platforms Inc. doesn’t have a monopoly in social networking, an agency spokesman said Tuesday... View Source

Image credit: HeroX 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 external crowdsourced challenges on behalf of NASA and other agencies. The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces the “Suppleme... View Source

Blue Origin will launch six people to the final frontier on Thursday (Jan. 22), and you can watch the space tourism mission live... View Source

Coinbase's Brian Armstrong still sees a path for the US to pass comprehensive crypto legislation even after helping to derail a bill last week. He pulled support for the latest draft of digital asset market structure legislation in a Jan. 14 social media post. Within hours of Armstrong’s post, Senate Banking Chairman Tim Scott announced he would postpone a planned markup. Armstrong spoke today wit... View Source

Did you save your Google Stadia controller like I told you last month? It's still not too late. This week, Google has finally removed the tool that converts the now-useless controller into a decent Bluetooth gamepad. But there's another way. Christopher Klay, who previously developed the Stadia Enhanced browser extension, is one of many who saved a copy of the tool to a personal GitHub page. What'... View Source

This is the first recorded instance of a bovine using tools from her environment to relieve an itch—leaving scientists astonished... View Source

"Bloomberg Crypto" covers the people, transactions, and technology shaping the world of decentralized finance. Today's guests: SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce and Wintermute Co-Founder and CEO Evgeny Gaevoy. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

5 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft flies above Palmdale and Edwards, California, during its first flight Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, accompanied by a NASA F-15 research aircraft serving as chase.NASA/Jim Ross As NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft continues a series of flight tests over... View Source

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing their thick atmospheres... View Source

A little over a decade ago, Life is Strange burst onto the scene with a unique blend of teen drama and interactive storytelling. That first game told the story of Max Caulfield, who had the supernatural ability to reverse time, and her best friend Chloe Price. Now developer Deck Nine Games is finally bringing their story to an end with a new game called Reunion. The latest entry in the series foll... View Source

Anthropic’s Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei compared artificial intelligence chips to nuclear weapons. Google DeepMind’s CEO said China’s technology is just months behind the US. Signal’s Meredith Whittaker called new adaptations of AI uniquely “perilous.”... View Source

Akai just revealed its most powerful standalone groovebox, the MPC XL. For the uninitiated, the MPC has been around since the 1980s and pretty much defined hip hop from that era. The line has continuously iterated to keep up with the times and the XL looks to be the baddest of them all. First of all, it offers four times the processing power of previous MPCs, which is enough to load up to 32 virtu... View Source

When NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket launches the agency’s Artemis II mission to the Moon, four CubeSats, or small satellites, will be hitching a ride inside the rocket’s Orion stage adapter (OSA). All four Artemis II CubeSats are provided by countries that are signatories of the Artemis Accords. Payload deployment, which begins approximately five hours after launch, is controlled by the a... View Source

Samsung’s P9 microSD Express card is a relatively affordable way to upgrade Switch 2 storage. If you buy digital games for the Nintendo Switch 2, Samsung’s P9 microSD Express card offers an easier way to expand your storage without constantly deleting games to make room. It’s cheaper than other microSD cards, and it’s an even better value right now, with the 512GB version priced at $79.99 ($40 off... View Source

Canadian venture firm Georgian has invested in its first defense tech startup Dominion Dynamics. Margaret Wu, a lead investor at Georgian, discusses the $15.2M fundraise with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Sometimes, you just need to give your mind a little vacation. And these days, outer space sounds like as good a destination as any. Thankfully, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is here to give us a dazzling new image of the Helix Nebula.Discovered in the early 19th century, the Helix Nebula resides in the constellation Aquarius. (Cue The 5th Dimension.) At about 655 light-years away, it'... View Source

The total solar eclipse on Nov. 25, 2030, will mainly cross the Indian Ocean, but views will be possible from Australia, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Lesotho... View Source

Google DeepMind Chief Executive Officer Demis Hassabis said Chinese artificial intelligence companies haven’t been able to innovate beyond the cutting edge of technology and remain about six months behind the frontier AI of the leading western labs... View Source

NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft rolled out of the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026 in preparation for the Artemis II mission.Credit: NASA/Brandon Hancock One year into President Donald J. Trump’s second term, NASA is delivering measurable progress across human spaceflight, science, aeronautics, and cutt... View Source

The online brawl between Elon Musk and Ryanair Holdings Plc continues, with Musk again floating the idea of buying the airline after clashing with its chief executive officer Michael O’Leary. Siddharth Philip reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Though Netflix's upcoming Star Search reboot will feature a panel of celebrity judges, viewers are going to have a hand in choosing which contestants win the competition. Ahead of Star Search's premiere tonight, Netflix has announced that it is launching a new real-time voting functionality that will give you the ability to tell the streamer which performer you want to see succeed. Rather than hav... View Source

Google DeepMind Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Demis Hassabis sees robotics as being “on the cusp of a kind of break through moment in physical intelligence.” He speaks with Emily Chang at Bloomberg House in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Roland just unveiled the Go:Mixer Studio, a powerful entry in the company's line of audio interfaces. This one promises to be a portable and affordable way to create high-quality recordings with a smartphone or PC. The biggest news here are the 12 input channels and six output channels. This means that users can record multiple instruments at once and even run the signal through outboard gear... View Source

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Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Maine tonight as Earth reels from a colossal CME impact... View Source

Doug Bowser is joining Hasbro's board of directors just weeks after retiring as Nintendo of America's president, according to an announcement on Tuesday. Though Hasbro's press release doesn't provide any specifics about Bowser's role on the board of directors, the company has big plans for its future in video games. Hasbro already licenses its intellectual property, including Magic: The Gathering... View Source

Lumen Technologies President and CEO Kate Johnson discusses the partnership with Palantir, importing AI and the outlook for the company. She speaks on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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Earth just experienced a rare S4 solar radiation storm, the most intense since 2003 — powerful for satellites and astronauts, but harmless on the ground... View Source

G42, the United Arab Emirates’ leading artificial intelligence company, expects the first shipments of some of the world’s most advanced chips to arrive in the country within months, bolstering its efforts to become a major player in the technology... View Source

A bright reflection nebula shares the stage with a protostar and planet-forming disk in this Hubble image.NASA, ESA, K. Stapelfeldt (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and D. Watson (University of Rochester); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) A disparate collection of young stellar objects bejewels a cosmic panorama in the star-forming region NGC 1333 in this new image from NA... View Source

The federal safety agency has hit SpaceX with a $115,850 fine after finding seven "serious" violations during its investigation... View Source

Hall effect switches are the most customizable and fastest you can currently get in a gaming keyboard. As such, they don’t usually come cheap. However, they’re fairly affordable to upgrade to today thanks to a deal on Corsair’s Vanguard Pro 96, which is cheaper than ever at Amazon and Best Buy, selling for $159.99 (originally $229.99). This keyboard lets you adjust the actuation distan... View Source

As Ars reported last week, NASA's plan to replace the International Space Station with commercial space stations is running into a time crunch. The sprawling International Space Station is due to be decommissioned less than five years from now, and the US space agency has yet to formally publish rules and requirements for the follow-on stations being designed and developed by several different pri... View Source

Artificial intelligence agents that autonomously carry out tasks pose a threat to secure apps such as Signal, according to Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation... View Source

Meta has a lot of work to do when it comes to limiting hate speech on its platforms. Now, its Oversight Board is looking into the company's decision to ban an account for, among other things, posting visual violent threats and harassment against a journalist — and it wants the public's advice.  In the year prior to the ban, Meta referred five posts due to violations of its hateful c... View Source

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says consumers are starting to see the impact of tariffs less than a year after President Donald Trump implemented sweeping fees on a range of imported goods. During an interview with CNBC, Jassy says the inventory Amazon and third-party sellers prebought in early 2025 to keep prices low has "run out," which means "you start to see some of the tariffs creep into some of the p... View Source

The European push to become less dependent on US technology will hurt the bloc even as President Donald Trump’s Greenland policy alienates allies, according to the head of Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson AB... View Source

Signal Foundation President Meredith Whittaker discussed the threats that artificial intelligence agents that autonomously carry out tasks pose to secure apps. “If you give a system like that root access permissions, it can be hijacked,” Whittaker said during a conversation with Emily Chang at Bloomberg House in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Adobe has announced updates for Premiere and After Effects, including new AI-powered tools that are meant to speed up your video editing tasks. In Premiere, the company’s video-editing software, it has unveiled a new AI-powered Object Mask feature that lets you easily pick and track persons or objects moving through your video clips. You simply have to hover over that object and click to generate... View Source

Annual Report of NESC Technical Activities On behalf of the NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC), I am pleased to provide you with the 2025 NESC Technical Update. This annual report summarizes the technical work, engineering advancements, and knowledge capture efforts we made in FY25. With support provided by members of our NASA community from across the centers, we focused our efforts on per... View Source

Even though the Red Planet's atmosphere is thin, wind is still one of Mars' most relentless sculptors... View Source

Signal President Meredith Whittaker speaks to Bloomberg TV on the sidelines of the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

In a strange twist of fate, a fire broke out this week at the Rad Power Bikes retail store warehouse in Huntington Beach, California, Electrek reports. The structural blaze came less than two months after the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) warned customers to "immediately stop" using and dispose of some of the company's e-bike batteries due to fire hazard. In December, Ra... View Source

The Model S. The Mach-E. The Ioniq. The… Dolphin Surf? That's right, friends: There's a new biggest name in EVs, and it means you might soon be cruising down the highway in the Dolphin Surf. And you might love it. After years of Tesla dominance, a Chinese company called BYD has become the world's biggest seller of electric vehicles. On this episode of The Vergecast, The Verge's Andy Hawkins explai... View Source

Standard Bank Group Ltd., Africa’s largest lender by assets, is set to lose two more top executives to smaller rival Absa Group Ltd... View Source

The UK government has announced a consultation, asking people for their feedback on whether to introduce a social media ban for children under 16 years old. It would also explore how to enforce that limit, how to limit tech companies from being able to access children’s data and how to limit “infinite scrolling,” as well as access to addictive online tools. In addition to seeking feedback from par... View Source

"The knowledge of these will ultimately help us understand the formation of the first stars and planets and how our own Milky Way came into being."... View Source

Energy will be a key driver to support the AI race and power all the data centers, but the US is in a good place to meet that demand, according to President Trump’s chief tech and science adviser. Michael Kratsios spoke with Bloomberg’s Jonathan Ferro, Annmarie Hordern and Lisa Abramowicz on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Sony is ceding control of its Bravia TV brand to China's TCL as part of a new "strategic partnership," the companies announced in a joint press release. The Japanese electronics giant plans to sell a majority 51 percent stake in its home entertainment arm to TCL, while retaining a 49 percent share. The joint venture is set to start operations in April 2027, pending regulatory and other approvals... View Source

Anthropic Chief Executive Officer and co-founder Dario Amodei says the US embargo on chip sales to Beijing is what is holding Chinese companies back. "I think it would be a big mistake to ship these chips," he tells Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait during a discussion at Bloomberg House on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. (Source: Bloombe... View Source

Part of a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of abandoning its non-profit status claims Musk is owed anywhere from $79 billion to $134 billion in damages for the “wrongful gains” of OpenAI and Microsoft. Musk claims in the filing that he’s entitled to a chunk of the company’s recent $500 billion valuation, after contributing $38 million in “seed funding” during the AI company’s early years. It wasn’t just mo... View Source

Netflix has updated the acquisition terms for its Warner Bros. Discovery offer to an all-cash deal, replacing its initial $82.7 billion cash and stock agreement. The changes are designed to expedite the sale of WBD studios and streaming businesses, following repeated attempts by rival bidder Paramount to pressure shareholders into accepting its own $108 billion all-cash offer. "The WBD Board conti... View Source

Deutsche Boerse AG is nearing a deal to acquire European fund distribution platform Allfunds Group Plc for about €5.3 billion ($6.2 billion) in cash and stock, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Europe must invest in its own open source artificial intelligence labs and address soaring energy prices, or it will quickly find itself dependent on Chinese models, former Google chief executive and tech investor Eric Schmidt said... View Source

C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos) brightened significantly ahead of its close approach to the sun... View Source

Spotify wants audiobooks to be on the same page. Spotify appears to be working on a novel feature that will allow audiobook listeners to pick up where they left off in the physical book. Android Authority reports that version 9.1.18.282 of the Spotify app includes code references to a Page Match beta feature that can quickly sync audiobooks on the platform with their paper and ebook counterparts... View Source

Chinese scientist He Jiankui wants to end Alzheimer’s and thinks Silicon Valley is conducting a “Nazi eugenic experiment.”... View Source

G42 CEO Peng Xiao discusses building AI infrastructure, evolving government approaches to regulation, the UAE’s role in global AI development, the Stargate project, and chip imports amid existing restrictions. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Joumanna Bercetche on the sidelines of the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

4 Min Read Jaclyn Kagey Shapes Humanity’s Return to the Moon  Jaclyn Kagey trains in NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, where astronauts and flight controllers rehearse spacewalk procedures in a simulated microgravity environment. Credits: NASA For Jaclyn Kagey, helping astronauts put boots on the Moon is part of her daily work.  As the Artemis III extravehicular activity lead in NASA’s Flig... View Source

A fast CME slammed into Earth on Jan. 19, unleashing hours of intense auroral activity and lighting up skies far beyond the poles... View Source

Microsoft has been testing its ad-supported Xbox Cloud Gaming service over the past few months, as I exclusively revealed in October. Now, the software giant is getting close to testing the free streaming option with Xbox Insiders. Over the weekend, Microsoft updated its Xbox app with loading screens for Xbox Cloud Gaming that mention "1 hour of ad-supported playtime per session." That lines up wi... View Source

Sony Group Corp. is spinning off control of its home entertainment business, including the flagship Bravia television brand, to Chinese rival TCL Electronics Holdings Ltd., the latest Japanese company to cut exposure in the low-margin segment... View Source

If the partnership goes ahead, TCL will have input into the development of future Sony Bravia TV models. Sony has announced plans to spin off its TV hardware business, shifting it to a new joint venture with TCL. The two companies have signed a non-binding agreement for Sony's home entertainment business, with TCL set to hold a 51 percent stake in the new venture, and Sony holding 49 percent. With... View Source

Prosus Chief Executive Officer Fabricio Bloisi tells Bloomberg's Francine Lacqua the company has "at least $10 billion" to keep investing as it looks to consolidate its global position in online food delivery and plans to expand in e-commerce and payments. He also discusses the significance of Indian and Latin American markets, as well as the need for "bigger technology companies" in Europe. He sp... View Source

Google DeepMind’s Chief Operating Officer Lila Ibrahim said the company will use conversations at the World Economic Forum this week to talk responsible development of artificial intelligence... View Source

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China’s consumer-sensitive sectors are lagging further behind growth in industries linked to manufacturing and tech, illustrating a sharp divide in an economy increasingly exposed to foreign demand... View Source

I’m sure that single extra milliamp-hour will make all the difference. After teasing 10,000mAh and 15,000mAh concept devices, Realme is ready to make those big batteries reality with the P4 Power, which launches in India on January 29th with a 10,001mAh capacity. Realme says the P4 Power will last for three and a half days of light use, which I can believe - I got between two and three days' batte... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. is losing its most senior public policy executive in the Asia-Pacific at a time when the company faces several regulatory challenges in the region and beyond... View Source

Roland now offers a more capable audio mixer for phones and tablets with the launch of the Go:Mixer Studio. The Go:Mixer audio interface lineup has always been a bit limited, better suited for scrappy live streams and capturing quick demos on their phones than professional recording. The Go:Mixer Studio is an attempt to actually reach that lofty goal, with more inputs and outputs, built-in effects... View Source

Pennylane, a French startup that sells accounting software, has raised €175 million ($204 million) in a funding round led by growth equity investor TCV... View Source

The spectacular aurora australis, also known as the southern lights, may be visible as far north as Victoria and New South WalesA ‘severe’ solar storm, which is being monitored by the National Emergency Management Agency, could make auroras visible in Australia as well as cause disruptions to the power grid. Here’s what you need to know about the solar storm. Continue reading... View Source

China, locked in a battle to lead technologies ranging from robotics to artificial intelligence, is studying whether to set up a national mergers and acquisition fund as Beijing ramps up its push for technological breakthroughs... View Source

British and Chinese security officials established a forum to discuss cyberattacks following a spate of hacking accusations that soured relations between the two countries... View Source

Chinese electric stocks are winning favor with investors early in 2026, thanks to intensifying global demand for power gear to build data centers for artificial intelligence as well as a state-led investment push in the sector... View Source

China has broadened a probe into PDD Holdings Inc. after its employees exchanged blows with regulators, dispatching over 100 investigators from various agencies to the company’s Shanghai headquarters in recent weeks, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Britain’s financial regulators should start stress-testing the risks posed by artificial intelligence because their current wait-and-see approach leaves the public and economy in danger of “serious harm,” a group of lawmakers warned... View Source

The world-beating rally in South Korean stocks is poised to extend as the nation presses ahead with efforts to improve shareholder returns and lure global capital, according to Jeong Eun Bo, chief executive officer at the Korea Exchange... View Source

Pioneering mathematician Dr. Gladys West has passed away at the age of 95. Her name may not be familiar to you, but her contributions certainly are; West's work laid the foundation for the global positioning system. As you likely know from experience, GPS is now an essential component of industries ranging from aviation and emergency response, as well as ensuring that you get to that dinner d... View Source

Peter Chernin is in talks to sell his independent production company... View Source

A general desktop emulator (like xAI’s Macrohard, which emulates keystrokes, mouse movements, and screen interactions) could vastly expand beyond VBScript/Unix scripting, which are limited to command-line or basic API tasks. Such a system automates any UI-based workflow without code changes or integrations, mimicking human behavior across apps (browsers, legacy software, ERPs). What It Could... View Source

Despite global uproar over the generation of non-consensual explicit photos, Elon Musk has continued to downplay the issue... View Source

ASUS appears to be shifting its business operations away from smartphones. According to translations of recent quotes from Chairman Jonney Shih, the company does not plan to release new phone models in the future. The chairman did not confirm whether smartphones would be completely phased out, but he did acknowledge that possibility. Whatever direction ASUS takes, its existing phones will continue... View Source

The state-backed survival contest aims to find the best indigenous AI models... View Source

The UK Gambling Commission has raised concerns that Meta is ignoring advertisements by illegal gambling websites on its platforms. At a conference in Barcelona, the commission's Executive Director Tim Miller criticized Meta's behavior towards advertisements for online gambling on its Facebook and Instagram social networks."Companies like Meta will tell you that they don’t tolerate t... View Source

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OpenAI plans to focus on "practical adoption" of AI in 2026, according to a blog post from CFO Sarah Friar. As the company spends a huge amount of money on infrastructure, OpenAI is working on "closing the gap" on what AI can do and how people actually use it. "The opportunity is large and immediate, especially in health, science, and enterprise, where better intelligence translates directly into... View Source

With the spring approaching, it's time to start thinking about how you'll file your taxes. Unfortunately, with the recent demise of Direct File, there isn't a free, government-provided alternative to TurboTax in 2026, and you'll need to look to other federal programs, including IRS Free File, to file your paperwork. If you don't qualify for Free File, chances are you'... View Source

I live in Minneapolis. I grew up not far from here, in a suburb of St. Paul; after stints on both coasts, my wife and I settled here to raise our daughters in a freezing state that had always welcomed us warmly. As the ongoing occupation by over 3,000 ICE agents stretches into its third week - with no clear end in sight - I've received a steady string of messages from increasingly concerned friend... View Source

Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets... View Source