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Apparently, the "return of Xbox" means a retreat from other platforms. At its Xbox Games Showcase today, Microsoft revealed that Gears of War: E-Day - which was previously rumored for a PS5 launch in addition to Xbox and PC - will not be coming to PlayStation. It'll be an Xbox console exclusive and is launching on October 6th. The announcement was preceded by a trailer, which opened with a street-... View Source

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As part of its Xbox Games Showcase on Sunday, Microsoft revealed new details about Halo: Campaign Evolved, the upcoming remake of Halo: Combat Evolved's campaign mode. The remake will debut on Xbox Series S / X, PC, and PS5 on July 28th. Today's mission trailer includes a first look at Operation: Meteorite, a new three-mission story arc in Halo: Campaign Evolved. It takes place a year before the e... View Source

Ninja Theory's upcoming game is coming to Xbox Series X/S, PS5 and PC... View Source

Minecraft Dungeons 2, a sequel to Microsoft's dungeon crawler spinoff Minecraft Dungeons, will be released on September 29th. The company originally revealed the game in a brief trailer in March, promising a fall 2026 release window. Here's how Microsoft described it at the time: Return to the world of Minecraft Dungeons in an all new action RPG adventure, brimming with high stakes encounters, thr... View Source

The pre-order trailer also revealed new voice actors... View Source

The 2026 edition of Summer Game Fest just wrapped up, and it was surprisingly hectic. The nearly week-long event came at a challenging time for the games industry, and for the most part the big keynotes were used as a chance to show some strength through major announcements, while largely ignoring pesky details like hardware price hikes and the mess of the live-service space. Both Sony and Microso... View Source

The teaser trailer for P6 is filled with headstones and eerie vibes... View Source

This year's Summer Game Fest turned out to be a good one for fans of Japanese RPGs. First, the conclusion of the Final Fantasy VII remake trilogy was announced at SGF Live, and now we have the long-awaited return of the Persona series. Atlus confirmed Persona 6 exists with a brief teaser, but aside from implying a very dark tone, that's about all the video revealed. There's no release date or wind... View Source

A proposal by a Kevin O’Leary-backed firm to build Canada’s largest data center in northwestern Alberta is facing pushback from some residents and Indigenous groups... View Source

Get ready to yell "Yah yah yah yah yah" all over again... View Source

SpaceX has more annualized cloud revenue than Google and is will run ahead of Amazon AI for AI cloud revenue. SpaceXAI has 20% of all active and completed AI data centers in the past two years. The lead in AI Cloud revenue is a $26 billion runrate from the Anthropic and Google deals. This is ... Read more... View Source

Microsoft has created a special edition Xbox Series X to celebrate 25 years of the console. The Xbox 25th anniversary console takes design cues from the original Xbox console, with both the console and controller featuring a translucent green design. "For the first time, we're bringing a translucent design to Xbox Series X, drawing inspiration from the original Xbox and OG Green so many players re... View Source

One of Microsoft's biggest gaming franchises is sticking with Xbox... View Source

Just a few days after pushing Fable out of 2026, Microsoft showed off more footage of Fable, the first new entry in the storied RPG franchise since 2010's Fable III, at its Xbox Games Showcase on Sunday. The company also announced a specific release date: February 23rd, 2027. Though if you get the Premium Edition, you'll get early access starting February 18th. The trailer from the showcase follow... View Source

Bloober Team's Star Trek: Shadow Frontier is coming in 2027 to PC and consoles... View Source

The console industry is in a weird place, and both Xbox and PlayStation have a chance to change the narrative a bit with their showcases at Summer Game Fest. Sony did that by focusing on the single-player titles it’s known for, and now it’s Microsoft’s turn. The Xbox Games Showcase airs on June 7th at 1PM ET (you can watch it on both YouTube and Twitch), and will be followed by a secon... View Source

The revamped AI tool will roll out in the coming weeks, according to The Financial Times... View Source

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation... View Source

A look at how Jennifer’s yard gets a brightness boost thanks to Govee’s smart outdoor lamp post. | Photo: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge If you have an outdoor space that needs some extra lighting, either for fun or security reasons (or a mix of the two), the Govee outdoor lamp post light is a good pick that’s 23 percent off its regular price right now. Typically retailing for $260, the Govee... View Source

I'll give the usual caveat: The horror novel Japanese Gothic is best experienced going in with as little information as possible. Content warnings for graphic gore, scenes of domestic violence, self-harm, and mental illness. If you're okay with that, then consider pausing here. While I will try to keep this relatively spoiler-free, there will be some plot points I can't avoid. Kylie Lee Baker's la... View Source

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said its new Vera central processing units will use SK Hynix Inc.’s memory chips as the two companies prepare to do more business in the coming year... View Source

For decades, publishers depended on search engines to send readers to their websites, where advertising helped fund the creation of online content. But the rise of AI-powered search is changing that model. Researchers like Rand Fishkin say “zero-click” searches are increasingly keeping users inside platforms rather than sending them to publishers, while Rutgers professor Caitlin Petre warns that f... View Source

The Magellanic Clouds are a pair of dwarf galaxies passing the Milky Way probably for the first time, but as they move they have been interacting with each other for billions of years... View Source

Coherent and Flex OS, to Lisa and Mac OS. | Image: Virtual OS Museum The Virtual OS Museum isn't a physical place, it's a collection of over 1,700 distinct installations of over 600 operating systems for over 250 platforms that you can download and run via emulation right on your computer. It's largely the work of one man, Andrew Warkentin, a developer and OS historian who has been slowly building... View Source

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If you're going to spend about $20 a month anyway, here's how to make sure you're doing more than just avoiding ads... View Source

Back from the dead. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge The 2026 XPS 14 is the best premium laptop we've seen from Dell in a while, with incredible build quality in a thin machine and good performance thanks to Intel's Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" chips. A bonus: Dell killed its lame "Premium Plus" naming scheme. XPS is so back! I can't believe how much of a turnaround this new mode... View Source

A flood of new shares from companies looking to fund their artificial intelligence ambitions is raising questions on Wall Street about whether there will be enough buyers to soak them all up and what this pile of fresh equity will mean for stock prices more broadly... View Source

On Aug. 12, 2026, some of the best beaches in the world will play host to totality... View Source

Constantly being plugged into the news grind is mentally exhausting. Sometimes we just need to take a break, unwind, and do something fun. That’s why we’ve built up a collection of distracting time-wasters for when we need a break from being obsessively online. We figured you might enjoy these harmless rabbit holes, mildly addictive browser games, and internet curiosities, too, so we’v... View Source

'This season in a lot of ways is a celebration and I think you can feel it in everything'... View Source

Aitana Lopez, AI avatar by creative agency The Clueless. | Image: The Clueless This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI confusion, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started At first, AI influencers were relatively easy to identify - and to ignore... View Source

"If a major meteor shower outburst or storm is forecast during a mission or crew activity, the mission would be delayed or the crew kept inside until the outburst or storm is over."... View Source

The UK will offer to buy artificial intelligence chips from technology companies in an effort to encourage them to stay in Britain, the Telegraph reported on Sunday... View Source

China’s first prefabricated computing power hub has started operations, offering a faster and lower-cost way to build and supply electricity to data centers, according to a report from China Central Television... View Source

China wants slimmer electric vehicles after years of bigger batteries and rising demand for space and features helped make passenger cars significantly larger and heavier, state broadcaster China Central Television reported on Sunday... View Source

The N3 Ultimate doesn’t mind being off center. | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge Sorry Anker: JMGO now makes my favorite flagship portable projector. The N3 Ultimate is an excellent portable 4K projector that defeats moderate ambient light at severe placement angles and can rival more expensive home theater installations at night. After a few weeks of testing, I think the raw adaptability exhib... View Source

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung nominated SME and Startup Minister Han Seong-sook as prime minister, betting the tech industry veteran will help the country realize its artificial intelligence ambitions... View Source

As funding conditions tighten, investment into African startups held up in 2025. Bloomberg's Jennifer Zabasajja spoke with venture capital investor Tokunboh Ishmael from Alitheia Capital for a view from investors on the ground. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

California's attorney general Rob Bonta launched a probe into the deal shortly after it was announced... View Source

Sriram Krishnan, a top White House adviser on artificial intelligence, is stepping down from the post... View Source

Details for a potential deal haven't been finalized yet... View Source

It'll be available for PC and mobile, and maybe Nintendo Switch down the line... View Source

Plus, check out the new trailer for the cosmic horror game Penguin Colony... View Source

Good ol' games? | Image: GOG GOG sent a newsletter about the game The End of the Sun on June 5th that included symbols associated with the Nazi SS. The Steam competitor issued a statement attributing the inclusion to a "series of mistakes," including miscommunication with the German QA team, inconsistent font rendering, and being understaffed during a bank holiday, among other things. The game is... View Source

The memo also prevents companies from altering AI models being used by the military without prior approval... View Source

Fellow Traveller, the publisher behind games like Titanium Court and 1000xResist, just wrapped up its Story-Rich Showcase, which featured a bunch of narrative-driven indie games. With more than 20 games on display, there was a lot to follow, but we've pulled together some of the most notable announcements below. You can also catch the full show on Fellow Traveller's YouTube channel. Ambrosia Sky i... View Source

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Spry Fox's most adorable life sim hits the big screens... View Source

Every year at Summer Game Fest, nestled in between the splashy blockbuster showcases, the Wholesome Direct provides a nice change of pace. It's similarly packed with games - this year's edition had more than 50 - but the vibe is more chill and, well, wholesome. As in years past, I've pulled out some of the more intriguing reveals and announcements, though you can watch the whole thing for yourself... View Source

The Avatar RPG has been put in an iceberg... View Source

Director Damien Chazelle went from La La Land directly into First Man, the latter of which is included in this sale. | Photo by Daniel McFadden / Universal Studios If you know a dad with a predilection for physical media, he might really dig what you buy for him with this deal at Gruv. Ahead of Father’s Day on June 21st, the online seller (operated by Universal Pictures, in case you didn’t know) i... View Source

Benn refuses to be pigeon holed. | Image: Benn Jordan Benn Jordan may have initially gained notoriety for his music as Flashbulb and later, reviewing synths and effects pedals on YouTube under Benn and Gear. But about five years ago, Benn decided to take his YouTube channel in a different direction. He didn't stop covering music gear overnight, but as time progressed, his channel became more focus... View Source

Elon Musk will virtually attend a closed door technology conference run by ASML Holding NV to discuss his Terafab project, which the chip-equipment maker considers a “serious endeavor.”... View Source

'It was such a great playground to play in, and I hope that it opens up more projects like this for creatives to embrace and trust.'... View Source

A proposed $2 billion data center has become a political flashpoint in the small city of Shelbyville, Indiana. And the controversy has only grown more intense after the mayor, Scott Furgeson, was caught on camera saying of the "No Data Center" signs going up that, "I've seen a lot of these all over town, but I only see them in shitty houses," before adding, "most of them are rentals." The woman sp... View Source

Check out all the Summer Game Fest showcases you can watch today, June 6... View Source

An AI-generated image of the royal family featuring two Queen Elizabeth IIs. | Image: Meta AI Facebook has long been filled with feeds of clickbait articles. Now, Meta is making its own clickbait articles with AI. The standalone Meta AI app now has a "For You" section that populates a list of clickbait-style stories for you to read. But the topics, images, and text are all AI-generated - and as q... View Source

Grindr Inc. unveiled a handful of new app features and shared more details around its premium subscription tier as part of a larger effort to integrate artificial intelligence across its LGBTQ dating platform. The premium plan unlocks access to new AI features and deeper personalization, Grindr said Monday in a statement. The company is also investing further in AI-powered safety tools and in behi... View Source

NASA is targeting an August 30 launch for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which has 100 times Hubble's field of view... View Source

Jason Momoa will star as the psycho space biker this summer, but who exactly is Lobo?... View Source

Can you go undefeated? | Screenshot: The Verge 82-0 marries the stat nerd fun of fantasy basketball with instant gratification and a bit of dumb luck. The goal is to draft a team of players that could (theoretically) have a perfect 82-0 season. Obviously, if you just had free rein to pick whoever you wanted from throughout history, there would be little challenge. The twist is that the site random... View Source

Whether you hate subscriptions like Kindle Unlimited or simply want to get away from Amazon for whatever reason, you'll find plenty of solid options available... View Source

President Donald Trump expressed interest in the US government holding equity stakes in leading artificial intelligence developers, saying that he planned to discuss the idea of a partnership with AI companies’ executives as soon as next week. Bloomberg Surveillance Co-Host and Chief Political Correspondent Annmarie Horden joined David Gura and Christina Ruffini on Bloomberg This Weekend to discus... View Source

On Episode 212 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Apollo legend Gerry Griffin live from the International Space Development Conference (ISDC) in McLean, Virginia... View Source

There are a lot of games that remind me of summer - hot days in the backseat with a copy of Dragon Warrior III, cooling off in the basement while grinding Gran Turismo races - but there aren't a lot of games that are actually about summer. That's part of what makes Kabuto Park so charming. It's a game that manages to not only capture the fleeting moments of a childhood summer, but also cram a Pok... View Source

We played the opening of the Control sequel and saw just how weird Remedy's twisted New York is... View Source

Our first glimpse of the new AI Siri came all the way back at WWDC 2024. Apple has been on its back foot, AI-wise, for the past few years. But in a strange way, playing from behind might not be such a bad move. At WWDC on Monday, Apple appears to be getting ready to reintroduce us to the new Siri. Again. As a reminder, we met the new Siri in 2024 when Apple "launched" Apple Intelligence. Siri came... View Source

For years, Wall Street has benefited from one of the most reliable forces in modern markets: a retail-trader army willing to buy almost anything. Friday offered a glimpse of what happens when several of those trades come under pressure at the same time. Artificial-intelligence stocks suffered their sharpest selloff in months, Bitcoin fell below $60,000 and bond yields surged as traders revived bet... View Source

Plus, a whole bunch of neat demos ahead of Steam Next Fest... View Source

Raúl Esparza will reprise his lead role as the famous Renaissance astronomer this fall in 'Galileo'... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 131, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy last week of productivity before the World Cup starts, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about the World Cup and peptides and parasocial media, catching up on Clarkson's Farm ahead of the new seaso... View Source

Google has just signed a $30 billion AI computing power deal with SpaceX... View Source

The last dark skies of spring are the perfect time to get to know a new smart telescope and go deep-sky stargazing... View Source

New simulations reveal that the moons of Uranus may retain traces of giant planets... View Source

Prediction markets that enable you to bet on pretty much everything are everywhere nowadays. But there’s still a big question over whether they can expand to include larger institutional investors like hedge funds. Part of the problem is that a lot of prediction market contracts are illiquid and trading volumes can sometimes be shallow. That’s where trading firm Susquehanna International Group com... View Source

Creating an asset class for bets on anything... View Source

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey suggested that artificial intelligence may need to be rationed because a lack of energy capacity will restrain the ability for every economic sector to deploy the new technology... View Source

For one Friday night, Hongdae wasn’t Seoul’s trendiest neighborhood. It was Jensen Huang’s stage... View Source

A new Nintendo eShop page announced the game's release date early... View Source

It's just Resident Evil: Veronica now... View Source

Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn co-founder and venture capitalist, will leave Microsoft Corp.’s board later this year, saying he wants to focus on his new artificial intelligence company... View Source

Star Wars Zero Company's developers released a gameplay trailer, which features a short appearance by Anakin Skywalker... View Source

The boom in artificial intelligence investment is a “fundamental, generational” phenomenon driving markets and filtering through to the economy at large, Christina Minnis, global head of the alternatives origination group at Goldman Sachs, says in an interview with Bloomberg News' Davide Scigliuzzo at the Bloomberg Global Credit Forum in New York on June 3. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The abbreviated name, "AI 2," is the scariest thing about it so far... View Source

A growing share of people say they trust AI enough to provide financial advice, and many are using it to make investment decisions, which could disrupt the wealth management industry. Suzanne Woolley has more on the debut episode of "Bloomberg Money." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Don't worry, StudioMDHR is working on another hand-drawn Cuphead game, too... View Source

September has become the most crowded release month of the year as publishers steer clear of Rockstar’s game... View Source

More details on the sixth Virtua Fighter game are coming in a dedicated showcase stream... View Source

Philip Johnston, Starcloud CEO, joins to discuss the challenges of building and maintaining orbital data centers in space, this as SpaceX says it wants to ultimately deploy 100 gigawatts of AI compute capacity in orbit. He joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

You can watch all ten episodes of the Among Us cartoon on Paramount+... View Source

Ian Cinnamon, Apex CEO, joins after the company raised more than $200 million as it works to increase production of satellite platforms for commercial firms and government work, including the development of President Trump's Golden Dome missile defense shield. He joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Blood Dungeon is the latest project from the studio behind Nidhogg... View Source

Software has dominated venture capital for years, but as AI moves beyond the digital world and into manufacturing, robotics, and industrial systems, investors are betting the next trillion-dollar opportunities wraps software into the physical world. Nina Achadjian, partner at Index Ventures, an early backer of companies including Anthropic, Physical Intelligence, and ServiceTitan, discusses the ne... View Source

The final chapter will drop simultaneously on PS5, Switch 2, Xbox and PC... View Source

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Elon Musk's vision of the future and how he enchanted investors even as he brushed aside questions about the SpaceX IPO at an investor event. Plus, he takes a look at May's hot jobs report even as tech stocks are under pressure with investors reassessing the path for interest rates. And, he recaps conversations with three of the biggest names in AI at the Bloomber... View Source

Airdorf and Andrés Borghi are making one nightmare with two styles of terror... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. is considering raising equity after Alphabet Inc.’s successful $85 billion sale, according to the Financial Times. Meta shares fell on the report... View Source

Peeing in the pool is extra dangerous in co-op shooter Lazy River... View Source

Google parent Alphabet Inc.’s municipal-bond market debut was met by a surge of investor interest... View Source

Ithaca asks how far will players go to save the planet... View Source

Apollo Global Management Inc. and Blackstone Inc. have finalized a $35 billion financing package for Anthropic PBC to expand its AI infrastructure, marking the latest mega-deal in the artificial intelligence race... View Source

Screenbound lets you control a 2D handheld game and a character in a 3D world at the same time... View Source

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are Edward Jones Head of Investment Strategy Mona Mahajan, Docusign CEO Allan Thygesen, Guggenheim Partners Senior Analyst of Retail & Commerce Simeon Siegel, Sperling Economics President Gene Sperling, Interactive Brokers Chi... View Source

Duck Detective studio Happy Broccoli is back with a creepy-cute mystery called Apple Crumble... View Source

DocuSign's shares declined amid a broadly negative market day following the company's full-year guidance, which failed to excite investors. Allan Thygesen, CEO of DocuSign, discussed the company's AI-powered intelligent agreement management platform, highlighting strong adoption with 40,000 customers currently live on the platform. He speaks with Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on "The Close."... View Source

It's raining blood, hallelujah... View Source

This week, the dollar remains the world’s dominant currency, but economist Ken Rogoff thinks rising debt and geopolitical shifts are eroding its position as the world’s reserve currency. And, AI-powered search is reducing web traffic, forcing publishers to rethink how they attract audiences and generate revenue online. Will competition between the US and China to launch satellites create the next... View Source

Playtonic is shifting the Yooka-Laylee series from platforming to familiar-looking arcade racing... View Source

Who's afraid of the next GTA? Based on the last few days of Summer Game Fest, just about everyone. Grand Theft Auto VI hasn't been present at any of the keynote events, but its presence was felt every time a release date was announced. The month of November, when GTA VI launches, is virtually empty. The rest of the fall, meanwhile, is absolutely packed. It started at Sony's State of Play showcase... View Source

Jeremy Siegel, Professor Emeritus of Finance at the Wharton School, discussed the recent market sell-off during a live financial news segment. The conversation focused on the sharp decline in the NASDAQ 100, which was described as an AI-led rout coinciding with climbing yields. He speaks with Romaine Bostick & Katie Greifeld on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Metanet is bringing minimalism and precise mechanics to consoles and PC next year... View Source

Back in 2015, the two-person studio Metanet released N++, a brutally hard 2D platformer that was a decade in the making, building off of previous releases dating back to the freeware Flash title N. At the time, cofounder Raigan Burns issued some famous last words: "We hope it's not another 10 years before we come up with a game." But now here we are, more than a decade later, and N is getting anot... View Source

Esi Eggleston Bracey, former Unilever Global Chief Growth & Marketing Officer, shared her involvement with the Iconoclast dinner experience, highlighting its significance as a coveted event in the culinary world. She described how the event, founded by Dr. Leslie, has been developed over eleven years to identify and bring together top influencers and power players in culinary cuisine. She spea... View Source

Bloober Team is publishing (and also kinda helping develop) a new Saw game... View Source

NASA's X-59 jet broke the sound barrier for the first time on Friday (June 5), reaching a top speed of about Mach 1.1... View Source

Square Enix has officially announced the third and final game in its Final Fantasy VII remake trilogy: Final Fantasy VII Revelation. It will release on all platforms simultaneously. In footage shown onstage at Summer Game Fest Live 2026, there was a lot to take in: you'll get to fly the Highwind airship (and jump off it to land in the game's open world), play as Vincent and Cid in battle (who were... View Source

Meta's Mark Zuckerberg wanted to build a massive data center. And Louisiana leaders wanted Meta to choose their state as its home. But making that happen took a lot of negotiation — and secrecy. Bloomberg reporter Riley Griffin takes host Sarah Holder inside the deal. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Did that Coachella appearance land him the gig?... View Source

'Here's the thing. My cousin and I have very different ideas about what it means to be a hero.'... View Source

Marvell Technology Inc and Flex Ltd. will join the S&P 500 in the latest quarterly rebalance, S&P Dow Jones Indices said Friday... View Source

Just remember that Ueda's last game took nine years to get here... View Source

5 min read NASA’s Artemis II Moon Mission Research Continues on Earth Artemis II astronaut Victor Glover walks on a treadmill while in a space suit harnessed to NASA’s Active Response Gravity Offload System at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Glover is simulating a walk on a planetary surface while in a suit that has been offloaded to lunar gravity. Artemis II astronauts completed this and other suite... View Source

Chronologically, Control Resonant is a sequel to 2019's Control. But in most other ways, the games aren't directly connected. To developer Remedy, they're more like two sides of the same coin. When Resonant was first revealed last year, creative director Mikael Kasurinen said you can play the games in any order. The world of Control is reality-bending in lots of ways, but the general linear progre... View Source

Bloomberg's Bailey Lipschultz breaks down a busy week in SpaceX news, as the aerospace company prepares for an IPO. SpaceX and Google entered into an agreement for cloud services where Google has agreed to pay SpaceX $920 million per month for computing, something Lipschultz says is indicative of the expansion of the scope of work SpaceX is looking to do. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s X-59 eXternal Vision System shows Mach 1.077 on Friday, June 5, 2026, marking the aircraft’s first time reaching supersonic speed in support of NASA’s Quesst mission. The moment represents a milestone for the aircraft as it transitions to include test flights faster than the speed of sound.NASA NASA’s experimenta... View Source

'If 'For All Mankind' the danger is in space, in 'Star City' it's on the ground.’... View Source

The deadline to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is coming up a week from now on June 12th, and legislators seem no closer to reaching a deal. If this sounds like deja vu, it's because we've been here before. Congress reauthorized Section 702 in late April - but only for 45 days, so lawmakers could negotiate reforms to the controversial wiretapping authority. "T... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google has agreed to pay Elon Musk’s SpaceX $920 million a month for computing power as part of a cloud services deal that runs through mid-2029, its second such agreement with an AI competitor in a matter of weeks... View Source

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology team that won the 2026 RASC-AL competition for their project, Exploration-Class Lunar Integrated Power SystEm.Credit: National Institute of Aerospace NASA announced the Massachusetts Institute of Technology project, Exploration-Class Lunar Integrated Power SystEm, as the first place winner for the 2026 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Li... View Source

Geoff Keighley’s annual June celebration of games is here. Summer Game Fest Live, the big live show that will feature a whole bunch of gaming news and announcements, begins at 5PM ET and is set to run for two hours. The event itself will take place in person at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, but it will also be streaming live on YouTube. Summer Game Fest Live sits squarely in the middle o... View Source

Executives and academics discuss the new unknowns emerging for AI... View Source

After searching for 50 years, astronomers have finally discovered powerful winds blowing from Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy... View Source

Bloomberg Money takes the pulse of your financial life, powered by the reporting of our global newsroom. Today's guests: Charles Schwab Chief Investment Strategist Liz Ann Sonders and JPMorgan Asset Management Chief Market Strategist for Americas Gabriela Santos. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

OpenAI has announced more robust security features for the small set of users who might need them... View Source

Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha explains why AI is transforming cybersecurity, warns that AI agents bring "100x more risk," and discusses how businesses must shift from preventing attacks to rapidly recovering from them. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

There's a lot of confusion among Marathon players at the moment... View Source

Elon Musk once said passive investing has “gone too far,” mocked environmental, social and governance indexes as a “scam” and endured a long wait to get Tesla Inc. into the S&P 500... View Source

Warming waters decrease upwelling and lead to stress on marine microorganisms due to limited availability of vital nutrients. Red indicates the regions of highest nutrient-related stress. Kel Elkins/NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio As Earth’s oceans warm, microscopic marine organisms are experiencing increasing stress due to a lack of vital nutrients. A new study combining NASA satellite obs... View Source

The companies announced the deal on Friday, just one week ahead of SpaceX's historic IPO... View Source

Scott Pelley, correspondent, 60 Minutes. | Photo by Michele Crowe / CBS News via Getty Images It should have been the final straw. The new power couple of editorial failure - Bari Weiss and Nick Bilton - had fired legendary 60 Minutes journalist Scott Pelley. Why? Because he dared to question the fact that CBS had installed sycophants in its top ranks. Instead of standing in solidarity, correspond... View Source

Hotels and other service providers pitch themselves as eco-friendly when they’re not. Here’s how to call their bluff... View Source

Revolut Ltd. is looking to run a secondary share sale that would value the digital bank at $115 billion, on the heels of receiving a UK bank license and applying for a charter in the US, according to people with knowledge of the matter... View Source

Let's take a look at the movie's 10 spaciest moments... View Source

Releasing sterilized flies can crash a local population of flesh-eating screwworms. But the US currently has limited capacity to produce them... View Source

The May jobs report came in stronger than expected, but tech stocks are under pressure as investors reassess the path for interest rates. Martha Gimbel, executive director of the Yale Budget Lab, sees no major AI impact in economic data. She joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Your trip starts impacting the planet before you even leave home. Here are a few pointers for keeping your footprint small... View Source

This week, the Everybody's Business podcast asked moviegoers which summer movies they are most excited to see. Bloomberg's Lucas Shaw joins Stacey Vanek Smith and Max Chafkin to unpack why movies like Backrooms and Obsession coming from two young, YouTube-famous directors, have become surprise hits. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

5 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This sunset photo shows Deep Space Station 14, the 230-foot-wide (70-meter) antenna at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex near Barstow, California, part of NASA’s Deep Space Network.NASA/JPL NASA has completed the investigation into the damage sustained last year at its 70-meter radio-frequency antenn... View Source

Whether you’re considering starting a Sonos speaker setup, or adding to an existing group, the Sonos Era 100 is worth picking up. The compact, capable smart speaker is currently marked down to $189 ($30 off) at a variety of retailers, including Amazon, Best Buy, and directly from Sonos. If you want an even lower price, Sonos is selling refurbished Era 100 speakers for just $134. They come with fre... View Source

The actual eco-friendliness of ecotourism varies considerably. One research station in the Peruvian Amazon is out to prove it can bring visitors to the area without disrupting the environment... View Source

A proposal for a data center in Nashville is facing off against the leopards and tigers of the city’s zoo... View Source

Google's AI app Pixel Studio launched less than two years ago, but is now being shut down... View Source

We're now deep into developer conference season, and one of the themes so far is the relentless conviction from Big Tech companies that AI is going to change everything about how we do everything. Nvidia's Jensen Huang made that clearer than anyone this week, when he described a completely new way of using our laptops - and a completely new kind of laptop made to support it. It's all very interest... View Source

As the conflict in Iran disrupts the world’s oil supply, airlines are looking for jet fuel alternatives. The answer: energy from used cooking oil and french fry grease... View Source

OpenAI would likely have unraveled if Sam Altman hadn’t returned as chief executive officer following his brief ouster in 2023, former tech chief Mira Murati said, offering her clearest account yet of one of Silicon Valley’s most dramatic boardroom battles... View Source

A year after America’s first spacewalk, Gemini IX-A Eugene Cernan stepped outside his spacecraft for an ambitious extravehicular activity scheduled for 167 minutes. The challenges he faced led NASA to reevaluate plans, equipment, and training for future spacewalks.NASA One year after Gemini IV astronaut Edward H. White completed NASA’s first spacewalk the agency prepared for a demanding second exc... View Source

Remarkable backyard footage captures giant solar prominence and streams of coronal rain flowing along the sun's magnetic field lines... View Source

Even if you've done nothing wrong, it's never a good idea to hand your phone to the cops. But international travelers at American airports often have no choice - even if they're US citizens. When Minnesota labor organizer Janette Zahia Corcelius returned home from a three-week trip to Europe in late April, she was detained and questioned by customs agents at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airp... View Source

From San Francisco to Stockholm, a new generation of electric ferries is entering passenger service, marking a tipping point for green maritime technology... View Source

On this episode of Stock Movers with Alexis Christoforous: - Lululemon (LULU) shares are lower after it lowered its annual forecast due to deteriorating performance in North America. - DocuSign (DOCU) shares are lower after reporting earnings. While it reported a rise in 1st quarter profit, the annual recurring revenue rate was unchanged and investors may be looking for a return to double digit gr... View Source

We're waiting to learn more about what happened aboard the International Space Station... View Source

ISS astronauts briefly sheltered aboard an attached SpaceX Dragon capsule today (June 5) while cosmonauts tried to fix a persistent leak on the Russian side of the orbiting lab... View Source

Experts stress need for transparency while aiming to prevent premature announcements and protect scientistsAlien hunters have released fresh guidelines on how to handle potential signals from intelligent life beyond Earth, in the hope of avoiding an outburst of panic, misinformation and confusion if any are detected.While the idea of little green men may be a thing of the past, the possibility of... View Source

When Quilty hit the industry trades earlier this year, the AI startup promised that its tool could accurately predict a film's success just by reading the script. When people actually got a chance to experiment with Quilty's product, though, they were left skeptical. Even with all the available data in the world, it predicted the script for Christy, which would go on to be a box office flop, would... View Source

The biggest stories from Bloomberg Tech in San Francisco came down to a massive race to capital and the future of AI. Ed Ludlow breaks down a blockbuster lineup featuring major newsmaker moments. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A closer look at how undersea cables connect the world... View Source

Three planets, two stars and one moon create a spectacular June sky show... View Source

The New York State legislature passed a one-year moratorium on new large data centers, the first statewide ban of its kind if Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul signs it into law. Lawmakers behind the bill say it's meant to give policymakers time to understand the impact of large data centers on the environment and energy prices. It directs the state's environmental agency to create an impact report... View Source

The US government should consider the possibility that artificial intelligence becomes so advanced that it can improve itself without human intervention, and agencies should factor that risk into any voluntary federal testing of cutting-edge models, a key Republican senator said in a letter to the Trump administration... View Source

It's the first instance of an vaccine antigen designed exclusively by artificial intelligence... View Source

Searing across the night sky, a meteor puts on a spectacular show above Arizona's Kitt Peak National Observatory... View Source

The space agency says Roscosmos has discovered new leaks in the Russian service module that it is trying to repair... View Source

Nasa says Russian crew trying to fix worsening air leak in its portion of orbital laboratoryInternational Space Station air leak: latest updatesAstronauts onboard the International Space Station have been ordered to shelter in their spacecraft and prepare for potential evacuation as a Russian crew attempts to fix a worsening leak of air in its portion of the orbital laboratory, Nasa has said.The f... View Source

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. A few days ago, I walked into the basement of a midtown gym. Smoothies and healthy snacks were passed out. Fresh from a group workout, sweaty fitness influencers (and some less sweaty... View Source

Nvidia Corp.’s profit margins are relatively safe through 2030 because hyperscalers have few alternatives for the chips powering data centers for artificial intelligence, DA Davidson’s head of technology research said... View Source

Microsoft has two livestreams planned for this Sunday... View Source

Russian crew member attempting to fix a worsening leak of air on its portion of the orbital laboratory, NASA saidThe astronauts ordered by NASA to prepare for a possible evacuation on Friday are part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission.American astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, French astronaut Sophie Adenot of the European Space Agency and Russian Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev make up... View Source

In between beef tallow fries, raw milk, and vaccine denialism, Make America Healthy Again figureheads have set their sights on another slice of life: our clothing. "The MAHA movement doesn't stop with what we EAT - It's also about what we WEAR," Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said in a post on X in late May. "For decades, America offshored textile jobs and allowed foreign synthetic, plast... View Source

BlackRock Global Fixed Income CIO Rick Rieder reacts to the May US employment report. Speaking with Matt Miller on "Bloomberg Open Interest," Rieder calls the report "fascinating" in many regards, including a strong construction sector driven by nonresidential projects linked to AI infrastructure buildout. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

This week on the Engaadget Podcast, we dive into NVIDIA's RTX Spark chip and the many ways it could reshape the world of Windows PCs (or not)... View Source

Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. This week, I'm investigating where it might have been built - and why it definitely wasn't the US. Almost a year after its announcement, the Trump phone has "launched." A few journalists and YouTubers have received early samples of the phone, though the... View Source

The Egyptian government has IPO plans for various state-owned assets as it opens up the country to more foreign and private investment, says Mohamed Farid, Egyptian Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade. This includes the listing of major Egyptian bank Banque du Caire. Minister Farid was on "The Pulse with Francine Lacqua". (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Arm CPU cores, a powerful GPU and gobs of unified RAM? That sounds familiar!... View Source

SpaceX will sell its shares for $135 apiece during its IPO, yielding a valuation of $1.77 trillion... View Source

Just a cute little guy. Never underestimate the power that a cheap tablet holds over a kid under six. The Skylight Buddy is a device with one job: to be a cute little guy that helps your kid track routines and chores. It's $139.99, plus an optional subscription. And to my surprise, even though it offers a pretty limited set of features without the $39-per-year "Plus" features, it actually worked... View Source

China said it will foster more startups and unicorn companies in key sectors, in the latest sign of stronger policy support for new industries and firms that will help it achieve technological self-reliance... View Source

Vertigo Games, known for its VR work, is closing its Amsterdam studio... View Source

Lisa Shalett, CIO at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, sees investors mistaking pricing power in semiconductors as productivity and says she views Broadcom as “a warning flag” for markets. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The company said this week it would comply with President Trump's voluntary AI executive order... View Source

Night shining noctilucent clouds could brighten the sky before dawn and after sunset from tonight!... View Source

Indigo, citrus, and a touch of blush. It’s a Neo cocktail. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge The MacBook Neo is Apple's cheapest laptop, its most colorful, and its easiest to repair in years. That means owners can buy replacement parts in all four of its available colors and swap them in on their own. So that got us thinking: What if we bought a Neo just to see how funky we could make i... View Source

Investors know the AI boom will come to an end — the question is, when? Skylar Montgomery Koning has the key takeaways from Bloomberg MLIV's latest event in London. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

NVIDIA launches a powerful AI-ready notebook chip, NASA ends a Mars mission and Meta's still looking into glasses-based facial recognition... View Source

S&P Dow Jones Indices will not shorten its existing eligibility requirements for benchmarks including the S&P 500, closing the door to fast entry for big tech IPOs like SpaceX. Mandeep Singh of Bloomberg Intelligence has more. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Back in 2002, Porsche fans sputtered with rage as the Cayenne made its debut at the Paris Motor. More than 20 years later, Porsche now sells more SUVs than anything else in its lineup. Last year, the Macan and Cayenne accounted for 62 percent of all Porsche sales. Now, these SUVs are trolling traditionalists in a whole new way: They've gone electric, with a Cayenne Electric joining a smaller plug-... View Source

Katie Haun, Founder & CEO at Haun Ventures discusses venture strategy, AI agents and emerging technology opportunities with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang at Bloomberg Tech 2026 in San Francisco. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Google seems to be testing a new feature that will take you to AI Mode by default when you do a search in Chrome... View Source

How much money would you hand to Claude?... View Source