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After five years, Pragmata could have been unambitious, but instead, it's a fascinating and innovative sci-fi game with heaps of potential... View Source

Sony is raising the price of all PS5 models by $50 in the US. The company cited the “challenging economic environment,” which includes the tariffs President Trump has placed on imported products. The changes will go into effect on Thursday, and the new prices are as follows: PlayStation 5 – $549.99 PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – $499.99 PlayStation 5 Pro – $749.99 In April, Sony raise... View Source

Shares in Brazil’s Nu Holdings Ltd. hit their highest in a month on Wednesday after Citigroup Inc. became the latest bank to upgrade the fintech following a quarterly earnings beat and a positive outlook on the fintech’s asset quality... View Source

8BitDo is predominantly known for its excellent gamepads of all shapes and sizes, but it makes other accessories too, including a charging dock for the Xbox Wireless Controller that is currently 20 percent off. Right now you can grab the officially licensed dock for $20, down from its regular price of $25. 8BitDo’s charging dock is compatible with the Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One variants of the X... View Source

Visitors have unearthed over 35,000 diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Park since 1972... View Source

Despite Tuesday’s wobble, the narrative that has been fueling the sharp recovery in US equities since April remains supportive as the drivers of the rally are still intact... View Source

Google has announced a multi-year partnership with Steph Curry at its Made by Google event, and as part of that team-up, it says the NBA superstar will use AI from Google Cloud to improve his performance on the court. Yep, the company is claiming that Google Cloud AI can help the four-time NBA champ, two-time MVP and two-time scoring champion get even better at basketball. According to the company... View Source

Dr. Steven “Steve” Platnick took the NASA agency Deferred Resignation Program (DRP). His last work day was August 8, 2025. Steve spent more than three decades at, or associated with, NASA. While he began his civil servant career at the NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in 2002, his Goddard association went back to 1993, first as a contractor and then as one of the earliest employees of the... View Source

South Korea's K-RadCube satellite has arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of its launch toward the moon on the Artemis 2 mission next year... View Source

Stephen Curry will likely be making some appearances in future Pixel ads. Google has brought NBA star Stephen Curry on board to help shape the company’s hardware, features, and AI services. The long-term partnership was announced today at the Made by Google event, with Curry joining the company as a “performance advisor” for Google’s Health, Pixel, and Cloud products, leaning into his athletic exp... View Source

Scientists recorded in 3D and in real time the exact moment a human embryo implanted itself in an artificial uterus, opening new avenues for treating infertility... View Source

Oracle Corp.’s Larry Ellison used to scoff at the idea of cloud computing, saying in 2008 that it was “complete gibberish.”... View Source

Xbox gamers will have a new option for taking their library on the go this fall. During Gamescom 2025, ASUS revealed that the Xbox Ally handheld consoles will be on store shelves on October 16. We heard a thorough explanation of the specs and availability for the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X this summer, but the arrival date is the only new info to come from the major gaming event in Cologne... View Source

The Xbox Ally X. | Photo: Tom Warren / The Verge Microsoft and Asus are putting a date on their new Xbox Ally handhelds: October 16th. Both the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X will be available on the same day in a variety of markets worldwide, but Microsoft and Asus aren’t opening preorders yet or revealing pricing. Microsoft also announced its handheld compatibility program to identify games optimized... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Kate Clark reports on the latest venture capital investing statistics, which again show artificial intelligence startups are dominating the fundraising... View Source

Last year, the most powerful geomagnetic storm in 20 years hit Earth. It produced stunning aurora displays in parts of the US that are normally too far south to see them. Normally, such storms are a headache for energy providers. In 1989, for example, the Canadian province of Québec suffered a nine-hour blackout following a series of plasma ejections from the Sun. This time around, power companies... View Source

6 min read NASA, IBM’s ‘Hot’ New AI Model Unlocks Secrets of Sun This image from June 20, 2013 shows the bright light of a solar flare and an eruption of solar material shooting through the sun’s atmosphere, called a prominence eruption. Shortly thereafter, this same region of the sun sent a coronal mass ejection out into space — a phenomenon which can cause magnetic storms that degrade communicat... View Source

Scientists are calling attention to an extremely common health problem that's been making astronauts uncomfortable: sinus issues... View Source

Technology investor Prosus NV plans to raise $2 billion through asset sales as part of Chief Executive Officer Fabricio Bloisi’s plans to streamline the company around key brands... View Source

AI startup Upstage raised $45 million from investors including Amazon.com Inc. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. to accelerate development of its next-generation model and expand in the US and the Asia-Pacific region... View Source

People in prisons and jails have contributed to some of the greatest ideas in mathematics... View Source

This is part of a NASA-supported project hoping to fabricate "device-ready" wafers from space-grown crystals... View Source

Add a used rental to your basket, alongside everything else you already buy on Amazon. Hertz has announced that it will start selling used cars from its rental business on Amazon Autos. The company’s pre-owned vehicles are now available in Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, and Seattle, according to a new page on Hertz’s website, with “more locations coming soon.” The Verge was unable to find any live... View Source

Dave Schaeffer is running out of options to stave off the collapse of the Washington, DC, property empire he built over three decades... View Source

An automated system co-developed by SpaceX prevents disruption to radio astronomical observations caused by megaconstellations in low Earth orbit... View Source

Orange SA’s Belgian business said that hackers gained access to data from 850,000 customer accounts, in the third major cyberattack targeting the French telecommunications firm this year... View Source

Capcom’s Onimusha series has been on a long hiatus. Combining Resident Evil-style rendered backgrounds with more agile characters, adding in demons, magic and a feudal Japan setting, the series span multiple sequels — and consoles — til the fourth entry in 2006. Roughly two decades (and console eras) later, Capcom has returned to the series, even getting the definitive samurai actor, Tom Cruise Mi... View Source

Traditional biology has long ignored nature’s sexual diversity—but evolution tells a far more complex story... View Source

Warhammer 40K's most iconic real-time strategy series is back next year and under new leadership... View Source

Workers at FEMA worry that demanding disaster survivors access services using email could shut out people without internet connectivity from receiving government aid... View Source

Your new favorite lightweight spotting companion — the Noca Provisions Zero Tube... View Source

Google is set to reveal its new flagship Pixel hardware at a Made by Google event today at 1PM ET / 10AM PT, when we’ll find out exactly what the company has in store with its expected Pixel 10 phones, Pixel Watch 4, and Pixel Buds 2A. Will they include Qi2 magnetic charging? Is the 10 Pro Fold going to be the first IP68-rated foldable phone? And why on Earth has Google seemingly changed the Pixel... View Source

“It’s getting out of hand,” one seller says. “They realize the US market is a gold mine.”... View Source

A US government plan to take a stake in Intel Corp. would give the ailing chipmaker a powerful backer, even if a bigger challenge still lies ahead: finding enough paying customers... View Source

At this rate, nothing announced at Google’s Pixel event will be a suprise. More prices have leaked for Google’s new lineup of Pixel phones and watches, this time joined by prices for the new accessories and Pixel Buds 2A. Prices posted by leaker Evan Blass on X for the Pixel 10 family — including the 10, 10 Pro, 10 Pro XL, and 10 Pro Fold — line up with previous pricing rumors that were shared las... View Source

Baidu Inc.’s revenue fell, hurt by an economic downturn that’s capping its ability to fight bigger rivals in AI and make inroads in new growth areas... View Source

Whether you're working on the go, gaming away from your desk or just want a second screen to boost your productivity, a portable monitor can be a handy solution. These lightweight displays are perfect for adding more screen space to your setup without taking up much room — especially useful if you're using a compact laptop or traveling often.Many of the best portable monitors now support USB Type-... View Source

You always hear about startup exits. Big acquisitions. Big IPOs. But of course, this isn’t the fate for most new ventures. Many of them die outright, without any kind of “exit” at all for shareholders. So how do you wind down a company, and sell off the scraps? How do you actually pull the plug? David Johnson of Resolution Financial Advisors specializes in exactly that. Because the formal bankrupt... View Source

You can certainly use this for other things besides meatballs too, but it does present them beautifully. Ikea is teaming up with a Swedish designer for its latest collection, and the first product being teased is a dedicated plate for Ikea’s greatest product: meatballs. The 12-piece Gustaf Westman collection that’s launching on September 9th includes a chunky blue serving dish that is shaped to fi... View Source

How a small company pulls the plug... View Source

Flashing light visible for hundreds of miles on Tuesday night was an exceptionally bright meteor, say expertsA flashing fireball dashed across the skies of western Japan, shocking residents and dazzling stargazers, though experts said it was a natural phenomenon and not an alien invasion.Videos and photos emerged online of the extremely bright ball of light visible for hundreds of miles shortly af... View Source

India has moved a legislation to ban online money gaming due to rising instances of addiction, money laundering and financial frauds through these apps... View Source

You don’t have to worry about battery life with the Hyperkin Competitor since it’s a wired-only Xbox controller. | Image: Hyperkin There’s good news if you’re an Xbox gamer who’s longingly stared at the sleeker design of Sony’s DualSense controller for the PlayStation 5. After revealing the final form of its Competitor gamepad at CES 2025, Hyperkin has announced it will be available sometime in Oc... View Source

We may deliberate for days when buying a laptop or computer or spend hours lining up the most comfortable and stylish keyboard before aimlessly adding a utilitarian mouse to our basket. The impact of a good, feature-rich and — perhaps most importantly — ergonomic mouse can be huge. Not just to your productivity, but to the quality and comfort of your worklife overall. A good mouse has long offered... View Source

South Africa is prioritizing a policy-review process that may result in Elon Musk’s SpaceX and other satellite-internet companies being allowed to operate in Africa’s largest economy without ceding ownership, the nation’s telecoms minister said... View Source

Swedish startup Mindler AB has acquired Ieso Digital Health UK for an undisclosed sum as it seeks to build out its footprint in the online therapy market... View Source

Singapore ride-hailing users got a rude shock on Wednesday after prices on the most popular app jumped about a hundred times from the usual rates, with short trips within the city costing $1,000 or more... View Source

Thailand’s data center capacity is expected to triple in the next three years as investments of about $6.5 billion pour into the sector to meet surging demand for cloud computing and artificial intelligence... View Source

After months of turbulence, Intel Corp. bulls are finally being rewarded for their patience. But the stock’s sudden rebound comes with a worrying side effect: a valuation so high its most recent precedent is from the dot-com era more than two decades ago... View Source

The Chinese-founded company behind AI pioneer Manus said it’s forecast an annual revenue run rate of $90 million, offering a first glimpse at the value of its business... View Source

Canva Inc. launched an employee stock sale at a valuation of $42 billion, marking a significant leap in value for the Australian design software startup that’s betting on artificial intelligence for growth... View Source

The White House has joined TikTok, the social media app that President Trump wanted to ban during his first term. Its first post shows clips of Trump in various events with Kendrick Lamar's track playing in the background. The New York Times notes that it references a popular video edit of Creed, a boxing movie starring Michael B. Jordan, on the app. In the TikTok post, Trump could be heard s... View Source

Game Science, the startup behind one of last year’s biggest new role-playing games, is working on a successor in the series, Black Myth: Zhong Kui... View Source

Google didn't need to make its own smartphone. Even though the company spent several years having other manufacturers build phones it could slap its "Nexus" branding on, selling hardware is not core to Google's business. Things like advertising and Search still handily dwarf the inroads the company's made as a smartphone manufacturer, and that will likely remain true for t... View Source

Inzone dropped a fresh batch of gaming peripherals today. Sony introduced the Inzone line in 2022 and it offers peripherals such as monitors and earbuds for gaming consumers. The new wave of gaming gear was developed with major esports organization Fnatic, and the specs are meant to target competitive players. All of the items are available for pre-order today. The lineup includes a pair of audio... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. shares fell for a second day, following a sharp selloff in US technology shares and as concerns over its investment in Intel Corp. continued to weigh on the company... View Source

The Anker Soundcore Sleep A30 earbuds are now available to purchase. These are some of the only sleep earbuds with ANC, which could be a boon for light sleepers that live in busy metropolitan areas. The company says they "effectively block out snoring, pet sounds, appliance hum and outside traffic noise." There are other techy additions here, beyond ANC. Anker's proprietary Ear Canal Adaptation al... View Source

In the 16 years since Ronald D. Moore's take on Battlestar Galactica ended its official TV run in 2009, the most surprising thing about the series is that it hasn't inspired many great games. Sure, more than a few releases have carried the Battlestar Galactica name, but none of those have managed to capture what made the 2003 miniseries and later 2004 show so special. That might change e... View Source

While it was President Joe Biden who signed the law that would force  ByteDance to sell its stake in TikTok or face a ban, it’s his successor, Donald Trump, who has yet to fulfill his promise of arranging a deal to keep TikTok running, legally, in the United States. The current deadline for a deal is September 17th. Still, it hasn’t stopped Trump’s administration from creating @WhiteHouse on TikTo... View Source

Absolum, the fantasy beat-'em-up from the team behind Streets of Rage 4, will arrive on October 9, Dotemu shared today. Ahead of the announcement, the publisher hosted a new preview of the game, giving the gaming press a chance to check out a new playable character and zone (more on those in a moment). I didn't get a chance to play Absolum when it was first announced back in March, so go... View Source

A Chinese e-commerce stock’s stunning rally faces a key test this week, with earnings set to shed light on the success of its pivot away from education following Beijing’s crackdown... View Source

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 will launch on November 14. Microsoft revealed the release date for the upcoming shooter sequel alongside a new trailer during Opening Night Live at Gamescom 2025. Notably, while Black Ops 7 will be on PC, PlayStation and Xbox at launch, it'll skip the Switch 2, despite a binding legal agreement between Microsoft and Nintendo that requires that the company's con... View Source

New installments of Microsoft Corp.’s Call of Duty franchise and Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.’s Lego Batman were among the high-profile reveals at the opening night of Gamescom, Europe’s big video-game trade show... View Source

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to bear fruit. Images captured by the floating watchtower revealed a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus. The discovery, made on February 2, increases the planet's moon tally to 29. The moon was easy to miss: It's only an estimated six miles wide. It's located about 35,000 miles from Uranus' center, orbiting the planet's... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. shares look to have limited upside after the rally this month that added more than ¥7 trillion ($47 billion) to an all-time high Monday... View Source

Rod Fergusson, the head of the Diablo franchise for the last five years, is joining 2K Games to lead up the BioShock franchise. This is happening just a couple of weeks after Fergusson announced he was leaving Blizzard. He was also the studio head at Coalition once upon a time, where he oversaw the Gears of War franchise. Fergusson wrote on X that he will be "overseeing development of the nex... View Source

Tesla has applied to get government support for a series of 9 megacharging stations from California to Texas. Tesla-Owned or Operated Megacharging Installations These are primarily at Tesla’s Gigafactories for testing and production support: Giga Nevada (Sparks, NV): Early Megachargers installed as far back as 2021 for Semi prototyping and testing. Expanded for ongoing operations. ... Read m... View Source

The White House launched its own TikTok account on Tuesday, the latest signal of support as President Donald Trump continues to seek a sale of the social video app’s US operations from Chinese company ByteDance Ltd... View Source

Indie game hit Cult of the Lamb has been keeping players (fittingly) enthralled since its original launch in 2022 with several free content updates, such as Unholy Alliance and Sins of the Flesh. At the Opening Night Live of Gamescom 2025, the roguelike unveiled its next update, titled Woolhaven. The paid DLC will arrive early next year, but no price has been set yet. Woolhaven introduces a danger... View Source

There is a 119 page report of the Run on Less Electric depot 2023 event. Tesla Semi operated by Pepsi had 1600 miles driven over 2 days in 2023 in real world tests with Pepsi and several 1000+ mile days in 24 hours. In the 2 years after, Tesla and Pepsi have improved megacharging and ... Read more... View Source

Chamath Palihapitiya is targeting the hottest — and riskiest — corners of the stock market with his newest blank-check firm nearly three years after abandoning the industry... View Source

Game Science Studio isn't resting on its laurels after the success of Black Myth: Wukong. The developer teased a follow-up project as the closer to Gamescom's Opening Night Live showcase with a brief but beautifully detailed glimpse at Black Myth: Zhong Kui. There's no date attached to the cinematic teaser, and that's because the game is still very much a work in progress. Acco... View Source

Writers, artists, photographers and researchers share the stories behind the stories... View Source

Apple is manufacturing more of its iPhone 17 phones for the US in India instead of in China, and for the first time, the full lineup of new models will ship from India at launch, according to Bloomberg. The company is also working on a successor to the iPhone 16E that it plans to make in India, Bloomberg says. Apple has increasingly been moving iPhone production to India to reduce its dependence o... View Source

On Tuesday, Meta rolled out its new voice dubbing feature globally. The Reels feature uses generative AI to translate your voice, with optional lip-syncing. Mark Zuckerberg first previewed the feature at Meta Connect 2024. At launch, the translations are only available for English to Spanish (and vice versa). The company says more languages will arrive later. At least at first, it's restricte... View Source

From Miami to Maine, the East Coast is under moderate or high rip current risk advisories because of Hurricane Erin... View Source

Google Docs will now let you generate an audio version of your documents using AI. In a post announcing the rollout, Google says you can customize Gemini’s AI audio output with different voices and playback speeds. This feature isn’t just for a document’s creator, as Google says readers can access a shared document’s AI-generated audio by selecting the Tool dropdown menu and selecting Audio > L... View Source

Things are ramping up for a return to the wasteland this winter. Season two of Prime Video's Fallout TV show will debut on December 17. The second season had already been loosely pegged for a December release when the news of a third season appeared earlier this year, and the studio shared a few still images of the cast in the upcoming New Vegas setting just yesterday. The announcement during... View Source

Using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have spotted a moon nestled near Uranus’s rings that’s so small you could walk around it... View Source

A distant galaxy nicknamed "Cosmic Grapes" is bursting with massive star-forming clumps — far more than expected — offering fresh clues about how galaxies grew in the early universe... View Source

On Tuesday, a group of current and former Microsoft employees, as well as community members, took over a plaza at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Washington, as part of a No Azure for Apartheid protest. They declared the area a "Liberated Zone" encampment and said they had changed its name from East Campus Plaza to "The Martyred Palestinian Children's Plaza." The organization, which announced... View Source

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is coming to the Nintendo Switch 2 in 2026. This marks the first Xbox game to be ported specifically to the Switch 2. The game, which we thought made a better movie than a game, has been making its way to other consoles, starting with the PS5 on April 17. We learned of this new port at the end of a trailer for a DLC called The Order of Giants. This all-new chapte... View Source

The universe has a habit of disproving “unassailable” facts... View Source

Google is one step closer to reaching its nuclear ambitions now that it’s working with public power utility Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to purchase electricity from a next-generation reactor. It’s the first power purchase agreement for technology this advanced that a US utility has made, according to the companies.  The plan is for TVA to buy electricity from a reactor being developed by engi... View Source

An Oregon man has been charged in a federal complaint today on allegations of operating a botnet for hire that conducted cyberattacks beginning at least in 2021. Ethan Foltz has been accused of running Rapper Bot, also known as Eleven Eleven Botnet and CowBot, and using it to execute coordinated distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The complaint claims that Rapper Bot was used to target v... View Source

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Mars Home 3 min... View Source

Remarkable new treatments can free millions of kids and adults from the deadly threat of peanut allergy, tackling one of our fastest-growing medical problems... View Source

Astronomers have learned how to find supernova explosions in their earliest stages, giving us an unprecedented look at how these stars blow up... View Source

North Rhine-Westphalia, Cologne: Presenter Geoff Keighley at Gamescom Opening Night Live 2023 | Photo Sascha Thelen / picture alliance via Getty Images While it didn’t feature much of Silksong outside of a brief tease — though there’s plenty more coming very soon — the main event for Gamescom, Opening Night Live, did have plenty to show off during its two hour runtime. Much of it was expected and... View Source

Microsoft Corp. employees have started setting up a protest encampment at the company’s Redmond, Washington, headquarters, ratcheting up a campaign calling for company to stop doing business with Israel over its war in Gaza... View Source

Google has reached a settlement over a lawsuit that claimed it illegally collected data from child users without parental consent through its YouTube video platform and then sent them targeted ads. The tech giant will shell out $30 million to settle the proposed class-action suit. According to Reuters, the plaintiffs' lawyers said there could be 35 million to 45 million class members. Childre... View Source

Washing waste from the brain is an essential function of sleep—and it could help ward off dementia... View Source

We chatted to Moleskine President Ward Simmons about their new NASA-inspired notebook collection... View Source

The Dreame L20 Ultra robot vacuum is down to a new low price. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge We’re in an age where you can realistically delegate tasks to smart hunks of metal, whether it’s a self-driving car or a robot that can clean on your behalf. Most of us probably won’t be able to afford the helpful sentient humanoids being developed in our lifetimes, but robot vacuums are an... View Source

In a stock market obsessed with artificial intelligence, Amazon.com Inc. is losing ground... View Source

Beyerdynamic has announced two new wireless gaming headsets at Gamescom 2025. The MMX 150 and MMX 230 are the latest entries in the company's MMX gaming lineup. The new headsets will be available exclusively in Europe and Canada, and are displayed in Cologne for gamescom attendees. The MMX 150 wireless is intended for casual gaming as well as everyday listening. It carries up to 50 hours of b... View Source

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Mars Home 2 min... View Source

Unless you have celiac disease, there are few health benefits to a gluten-free diet... View Source

The family-friendly animated outer space flick scores its home video release starting today (Aug. 19)... View Source

Nissan stunned us all when it released the specs for its refreshed Leaf: new crossover body; dual charging ports; and over 300 miles of range. Today, the Japanese released the starting price for the Leaf, and lo and behold, it’s still a hell of a bargain. When it reaches dealerships this fall, the 2026 Leaf S Plus will start at $29,990 — or $31,485 when you factor in the $1,495 destination charge... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Yazhou Sun looks at the measures startups are taking to keep talent around... View Source

Adaptations of video games continue to be big business. During Opening Night Live at Gamescom 2025, we learned that the punishing Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice by FromSoftware will be turning into an anime show. Sekiro: No Defeat will be available exclusively on Crunchyroll some time during 2026. The show will be directed by Kenichi Kutsuna, who previously worked as an animator on the One Punch Man an... View Source

Our anniversary celebration begins with an outstanding collection of stories about times that science itself has made a full about-face... View Source

SpaceX scored a win in a decision from the Fifth Circuit over the labor board's structure... View Source

Apple’s latest iPad Mini supports the Apple Pencil Pro, transforming the tablet into a great note-taking device. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge While the best iPad deals usually land during major sale events like Black Friday and Amazon Prime Day, many great iPad deals are available outside of those times. The day-to-day discounts come and go like changing winds, so there’s often... View Source

Banks and regulators must embrace the benefits of new technologies such as artificial intelligence and crypto or risk diminishing their role in the economy, said US Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman... View Source

We learned earlier this summer that Nissan was working on a redesign of its Leaf EV, but today the company shared some additional information about the vehicle. One of the most notable details is the price, which will be $29,990 for the Leaf S+ trim. That's a lower amount for the third-generation car than the original 2011 Leaf cost, continuing what has become a trend of Nissan offering elect... View Source

Letters to the editors for the April 2025 issue of Scientific American... View Source

Meta is bringing its AI translation tool to more users on Facebook and Instagram, which automatically dubs your reels into another language. The feature also uses AI to make its dub match up with the sound of your voice and the movement of your mouth. For now, you can only translate your reels from English to Spanish (and vice versa), similar to what Meta previewed during its Connect event last ye... View Source

After months of turbulence, Intel Corp. bulls are finally being rewarded for their patience. But the stock’s sudden rebound comes with a worrying side-effect: a valuation so high its most recent precedent is from the dot-com era more than two decades ago... View Source

Denshattack! is what happens when Tony Hawk trades in his skateboard for a high-speed Japanese train. Yes, you read that correctly. Denshattack! is the latest game from Barcelona indie studio Undercoders, and it's a delirious, high-speed action experience complete with flow states, a banging original soundtrack, flamboyant characters and coming-of-age drama. Players attempt to keep their trai... View Source

Everyone is missing the potential profitability and stock impact of Tesla’s Semi truck equipped with Full Self-Driving (FSD), transforming it into a robotruck. FSD is making solid progress in Austin and FSD 14 will be released in September with 10X the parameters. Test pilot production has started for Tesla Semi as the factory in Nevada ... Read more... View Source

Other species exhibit capabilities that were once thought to be exclusive to Homo sapiens... View Source

We might have a new king of esports gaming monitors — one with fewer compromises than usual. Asus has just announced the ROG Swift OLED PG27AQWP-W at Gamescom 2025. Not only does it offer a 26.5-inch 2560 x 1440 QHD OLED screen at a blazing-fast 540Hz, it’s also a dual-mode panel that can switch to a practically unheard-of 720Hz refresh rate when you kick the graphics down to 1080p* resolution. As... View Source

TPG Inc. is helping to seed a new investment management firm called Vanara Capital that will invest in growth-stage technology companies, according to a statement reviewed by Bloomberg News... View Source

Nintendo has confirmed that Kirby Air Riders, a modern revival of the 2003 GameCube cult classic Kirby Air Ride, will be released exclusively on Switch 2 on November 20. The announcement came during a marathon 45-minute Nintendo Direct devoted entirely to the new game, hosted by Kirby's creator Masahiro Sakurai. Sakurai said he was asked to create Air Riders while still working on DLC for Sup... View Source

Explore This Section Science Science Activation Sun at the Center: Teacher… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science   3 min read Sun at the Center: Teacher Ambassadors Bring Heliophysics to Classrooms Nationwide For the fourth year in a row, the American Association of Physics Teachers, a collaborator on the NASA He... View Source

The Juno spacecraft has rewritten the story on Jupiter, the solar system’s undisputed heavyweight... View Source

Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered a newfound moon orbiting icy Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun... View Source

Hello there, world! Welcome to the second issue of Regulator, a newsletter about the collision between Big Tech and Washington. If you enjoy this, consider subscribing to get this newsletter weekly and everything The Verge has to offer. Lobbying might be a dubious industry, but lobbyists themselves are often some of the best sources in Washington reporting: generally speaking, they're professional... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. is splitting its newly formed artificial intelligence group into four distinct teams and reassigning many of the company’s existing AI employees, an attempt to better capitalize on billions of dollars’ worth of recently acquired talent... View Source

Helldivers 2 is getting a Halo crossover. On August 26, gear inspired by Halo 3: ODST will be available in the Sony-published Helldivers game. Practically speaking, this is about some new armor, guns and abilities — just another Tuesday in the gaming world. But symbolically, it evokes Sonic the Hedgehog's first appearance on a Nintendo console. The crossover's arrival coincides with Hell... View Source

A collaboration between NASA and the small business Aloft Sensing produced a new compact radar system that will enable researchers to leverage High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) platforms to observe dynamic Earth systems. This new radar is small, provides highly sensitive measurements, and doesn’t require GPS for positioning; eventually, it could be used on vehicles in space. HALE InSAR flies abo... View Source

Play this crossword inspired by the September 2025 issue of Scientific American... View Source

Photo by Erika Goldring/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management The Federal Trade Commission is suing a ticket broker for allegedly using “illegal means” to buy up hundreds of thousands of live event tickets, including for Taylor Swift’s Eras tour. Key Investment Group, which also does business as Epic Seats, TotalTickets.com, and Totally Tix, is accused of violating the Better Online Ticket... View Source

Morgan Stanley had an unusual message when it approached four of the world’s biggest asset managers in July: they had progressed to the final round of one of the most sought-after private credit deals to date. But if they wanted to get to the finish line, they would need to pair up... View Source

The Anker 621 MagGo power bank is on sale for just $28 via Amazon, which is a discount of 30 percent. The deal applies to all five colorways, and there are some snazzy options to choose from. This particular model didn't make our list of the best power banks, but plenty of other Anker products did. The 621 MagGo is equipped with magnets that attach to the back of certain iPhone models, which makes... View Source

2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft sits on the ramp at sunrise before ground tests at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California, on July 18, 2025. The X-59 is the centerpiece of NASA’s Quesst mission to demonstrate quiet supersonic flight and the aircraft is scheduled to make its first f... View Source

The National Science Foundation will stop operating the Nathaniel B. Palmer icebreaker and slash polar science funding by 70 percent, devastating Antarctic research... View Source

See the waning crescent moon rendezvous with Jupiter and Venus in the eastern sky on Aug. 20... View Source

Are you in thne | Image: Sony Sony is finally ready to take on the likes of SteelSeries, Razer, and Logitech with its InZone brand of PC gaming accessories. While InZone started with monitors and headsets in 2022, with a few new products since then (including its great InZone Buds and the sleek but pricey M10S OLED), Sony is making a concerted effort to take over your desk. It just launched two ne... View Source

Zimbabwean banks reported widespread disruption to a widely-used payment channel, after the central bank experienced a network problem that it is trying to fix... View Source

Is it finally happening? Team Cherry just announced a livestream for the long-anticipated sequel Hollow Knight: Silksong. It takes place on April 21 at 10:30AM ET. The company says it will be making a "special announcement" about the game. We don't exactly know what this announcement will be, but it's starting to feel like a release date or at least a release window. Rumors hav... View Source

A series of biology experiments, called BioNutrients, is testing ways to use microorganisms to produce nutrients – off Earth and on demand – that will be critical for human health in space. For the BioNutrients-1 experiment, the specially engineered yeast and its powdered food source are held in the container at the left. Its lid holds a membrane that allows carbon dioxide from the yeast to escape... View Source

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Prepare your best clown makeup: Team Cherry, the developers of Hollow Knight: Silksong, will be making a “special announcement” about the game on Thursday at 10:30AM ET. The announcement will be shown on Team Cherry’s YouTube channel, and the premiere link is already live. It’s been a very long wait for solid Silksong news, so much so that the waiting spawned a clown meme. A release window announc... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google has pitched changes to its Play Store in a bid to ward off future European Union penalties following a warning from regulators... View Source

4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s Psyche captured images of Earth and our Moon from about 180 million miles (290 kilometers) away in July 2025, as it calibrated its imager instrument. When choosing targets for the imager testing, scientists look for bodies that shine with reflected sunlight, just as the asteroid Psyche does.NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU H... View Source

Synthetic polymers were supposed to free us from the limitations of our natural resources. Instead they led to an environmental crisis... View Source

You want a piece of this? You won't have to wait long for as this Disney+ animated sequel strikes back on Sept. 19... View Source

Google itself shared this image of a Pixel 10 phone, most likely the 10 Pro. Google is gearing up to launch a new slate of Pixel devices at its Made by Google event this week, led by the flagship Pixel 10 phone line, with updated watches and earbuds expected to arrive, too. This year’s Pixel line has been leaked extensively over the past few weeks, revealing just about everything we think the comp... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google lost the biggest antitrust challenge it has confronted when a US judge in 2024 found that it illegally monopolized the search market. Now it’s facing the possibility that the result will be a forced breakup of the company... View Source

Apple is shifting more iPhone production to India ahead of next month’s iPhone 17 launch, Bloomberg reports. The company will build all four iPhone 17 models there, and for the first time US-bound shipments for the entire lineup will come from India at launch. The shift comes amid production expansion across five factories in India, including two plants that recently opened. Apple has been working... View Source

NASA The Moon’s light is refracted by Earth’s atmosphere in this April 13, 2025, photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited into a sunset 264 miles above the border between Bolivia and Brazil in South America. Understanding the Moon helps us understand other planets, how they have evolved and the processes which have shaped their surfaces. It also helps us understand... View Source

Long dismissed as impossible, nerve regrowth is offering new hope for healing injuries and treating neurodegeneration... View Source

A Black Moon rises Aug. 23, though you won't see it. Its timing makes it a rare lunar event... View Source

Dreame’s L20 Ultra is over 50 percent off, marking a new low price. Now, at the end of the summer, it’s still too hot to worry about cleaning, which is why robot vacuums like Dreame’s L20 Ultra can feel like a lifesaver. The L20 Ultra is a robot vacuum / mop hybrid that takes care of the dirty work — literally — while you stay cool, and is currently the most affordable it’s ever been at $449.99 ($... View Source

Less than two weeks after President Donald Trump called for the ouster of Intel Corp.’s Lip-Bu Tan, the company’s chief executive officer has a shot at securing billions of dollars in fresh capital that could help him turn around the troubled US chipmaker... View Source

Whether you love or hate them, PDFs are an inescapable part of the job for many of us. In fact, it's safe to say the format isn't going away anytime soon, with Adobe reporting there are 3 trillion PDFs in circulation worldwide. However, there's no denying they can be a pain to work with, and in an effort to make it easier to manage projects involving multiple PDFs, Adobe is launchin... View Source

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft sits on the ramp at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California during sunrise, shortly after completion of painting in December 2023.Credit: NASA/Steve Freeman As we observe National Aviation Day on Tuesday – a tribute to Orville Wright’s birthday – let’s reflect on both America’s and NASA’s aviation heritage and share how we are pushing the... View Source

Total reversals in scientific thinking are rare—but earth-shattering... View Source

This quiz is dedicated to the mechanical marvels that have rolled across the surfaces of alien worlds: the iconic space rovers!... View Source

Microsoft Excel is testing a new AI-powered function that can automatically fill cells in your spreadsheets, which is similar to the feature that Google Sheets rolled out in June. You would use the “COPILOT” function followed by a natural language prompt and (optionally) specify the cells you want it to reference; the AI would then classify information, generate summaries, create tables, and more... View Source

Shares of Kyivstar Group Ltd., Ukraine’s largest mobile operator, jump as much as 22% in their third trading session since the company went public in the US by merging with a blank-check firm... View Source

NVIDIA is working on a new AI chip meant for the Chinese market that's more powerful than the H20, according to Reuters. It will reportedly be based on the company's latest Blackwell architecture, which can produce chips between seven and 30 times faster than its previous AI platform. Reuters says the product is tentatively named B30A and will have a single-die design, putting all its ma... View Source

The search for extraterrestrial life has periodically been turned upside down... View Source

The earliest backers of Ayaneo’s Indiegogo campaign can preorder the Pocket DS at a discount. | Image: Ayaneo First announced just a few weeks ago in late July, the Ayaneo Pocket DS dual-screen handheld is now available for preorder through Indiegogo starting at $519 but discounted to $399 for the earliest backers. Shipping is expected to start as early as October 2025. Although the company is con... View Source

DeepSeek announced what appeared to be an update to its older V3 artificial intelligence model on Tuesday, declaring an enhanced version ready for testing... View Source

Qualcomm revealed its latest mobile platform for more affordable smartphones and devices called the Snapdragon 7s Gen 4. Compared to its predecessor, the new Snapdragon chips have overall improved performance, support for more detailed displays and a feature that allows for better video quality in low-light situations. We were able to test the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 with smartphones like the Nothing... View Source

DNA holds our genetic blueprints, but its cousin, RNA, conducts our daily lives... View Source

Take a flight with us to see Hurricane Erin through the eyes of NOAA satellites and the Air Force's Hurricane Hunters... View Source

Acrobat, now for more than just PDFs. Adobe is introducing a new Acrobat platform that combines the PDF app with its Adobe Express content creation service and AI assistants that can automate specific productivity tasks. Acrobat Studio allows users to upload up to 100 documents and consolidate the information together into a single workspace. The idea is to evolve Acrobat beyond being a tool just... View Source

German kamikaze drone maker Stark Defence is raising a funding round led by Sequoia Capital, boosting its valuation to around $500 million 18 months after its inception, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Leave it to Tesla to charge its customers for a feature it purposely left out. The company is now selling an almost $350 retrofit turn signal stalk for its Model 3 cars after removing from the initial model. Instead, it used buttons to activate the turn signal. As of now, the add-on is only available in the Chinese market. But, Model 3 drivers will need to shell out another 2,499 yuan ($348) to ge... View Source

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SoftBank will invest $2 billion into Intel as the struggling chipmaker pulls back on spending and lays off thousands of workers. In an announcement, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son said the investment aligns with the firm’s belief that “advanced semiconductor manufacturing and supply will further expand in the United States.” SoftBank’s investment in Intel makes it the sixth-largest shareholder, accord... View Source

Nexstar Media Group Inc. has agreed to buy TV station operator Tegna Inc. for $3.5 billion in cash in a deal aimed at combining two large TV station operators that could test more relaxed rules from US regulators around market dominance... View Source

OpenAI has debuted its cheapest subscription yet for India only, product head Nick Turley announced on X. Called ChatGPT Go, the 390 rupee ($4.60) GPT-5 plan will offers users 10 times more message limits, image generation and file uploads than the free offering. "Making ChatGPT more affordable has been a key ask from users," Turley wrote. "We're rolling out Go in India first a... View Source

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NASA's Artemis 2 astronauts are gearing up for their planned 2026 moon launch by photographing an inflatable version of Earth's nearest neighbor... View Source

It’s almost time for Geoff Keighley’s next major gaming show. The 2025 edition of Gamescom’s Opening Night Live event kicks off at 2PM ET today, and you can watch everything on the official livestream on The Game Awards’ YouTube channel. Ahead of the main event, there will also be a preshow at 1:30PM ET featuring “multiple new game announcements.” Keighley has already teased a bunch of the games t... View Source

Tether Holdings SA said it had appointed Bo Hines, the former head of President Donald Trump’s digital assets advisory council, to help coordinate its expansion to the United States... View Source

UK officials will no longer compel Apple to create backdoor access to its users' data, according to US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. She wrote on X that she, President Trump and Vice President Vance worked closely with their "partners in the UK" over the past months. "As a result," she continued, "the UK has agreed to drop its mandate for Apple to p... View Source

The U.S. is a global powerhouse. Public education is one of the main reasons why... View Source

Less than two weeks after President Donald Trump called for the ouster of Intel Corp.’s Lip-Bu Tan, the company’s chief executive officer has a shot at securing billions of dollars in fresh capital that could help him turn around the troubled US chipmaker... View Source

After focusing its big Google I/O 2025 on AI tech and Gemini’s latest features, Google has new hardware. The next Made by Google event kicks off tomorrow, and Google has already confirmed how at least one of its new phones will look. Google Expect a little more fanfare than usual. The company dropped a video on X, teasing “special guests,” including Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Curry, Lando Norris and th... View Source

Figure out how to split the square in this math puzzle... View Source

Two years ago, Earth was hit by the most energetic neutrino in history. Scientists thought it might be a measurement error, but a new study has confirmed this “ghost particle” was real... View Source

Digital wealth management platform Endowus is partnering with Macquarie Asset Management to introduce private infrastructure investments to eligible investors in Singapore and Hong Kong, according to a statement... View Source

Options traders are increasingly nervous about a plunge in technology stocks in the coming weeks and are grabbing insurance to protect themselves from a wipeout... View Source

Spotify routinely debuts new playlist features for its users, but the company's latest update has the potential to dramatically alter custom mixes. Starting today, premium users will have access to a new tool for creating customized transitions within playlists. This will allow seamless progression from one track to the next, with natural-sounding changeovers and no awkward silence.  Onc... View Source

5 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This National Aviation Day graphic shows Orville Wright surrounded by the faces of some of NASA’s aeronautical innovators.NASA / Maria Werries The first “A” in NASA stands for Aeronautics – so naturally that means today, Aug. 19, National Aviation Day, is one of our favorite days all year! National Aviation Day wa... View Source

While observing the Halley-type comet 12P/Pons-Brooks with ALMA and NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility, researchers determined that the comet's water is strikingly similar to the water on Earth... View Source

Xiaomi Corp.’s quarterly revenue rose a slightly better-than-anticipated 31% after the successful launch of its second electric vehicle helped counter slowing demand for smartphones... View Source

Pizza ovens are having a moment. Companies like Ooni have popularized the ability to make restaurant-quality pies at home by giving you ovens that get hot enough for various pizza styles. Some burn wood while others run on gas, and some options can even do both with the proper accessories. I’ve broken down what to look for when you’re shopping for a pizza oven along with my top picks for the best... View Source

Apple secures a victory in its fight against the UK’s encryption access demands. The United Kingdom will no longer force Apple to provide backdoor access to secure user data protected by the company’s iCloud encryption service, according to US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. “Over the past few months, I’ve been working closely with our partners in the UK, alongside @POTUS and @VP,... View Source

The 500-million-year-old fossil, containing a species named in honor of the krayt dragons in Star Wars, is a much larger ancestor of phallic marine worms that can be found on the seabed today... View Source

Tesla Inc. priced its updated, six-seat Model Y sport utility vehicle in the same range as local rival Li Auto Inc.’s extended-range L8 model, to win over middle-class families in China’s hyper-competitive market... View Source

Handheld gaming systems are having a moment. While people have been gaming on the go since the halcyon days of the Game Boy, recent years have brought an avalanche of devices that let you play all sorts of games anywhere you want. But new machines seem to arrive every week, and figuring out which ones are actually worth buying can be overwhelming. Depending on your tastes, the right handheld could... View Source

OpenAI is launching an affordable new subscription plan in India, seeking to expand its artificial intelligence offerings in one of the world’s biggest internet service markets... View Source

Apple Inc. is expanding iPhone production in India at five factories, including a pair of recently opened plants, as it seeks to lessen its reliance on China for US-bound models... View Source

Bucking national trends in childhood vaccination rates, more teens are getting recommended shots, including for measles and whooping cough... View Source

Apple Inc. will no longer be forced to provide a so-called backdoor to American users’ data to the UK government, US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said in a post on X on Monday... View Source

More and more kids are turning to artificial intelligence chatbots for social interaction. We are scrambling to understand the pros and cons of their use... View Source

Qiming Venture Partners is slashing its new fund targeting Chinese AI and healthcare startups by a quarter to $600 million, in a sign of lingering caution among global investors about the country’s tech scene... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. signed a new lease with WeWork Inc. that will allow the retailer to expand its presence in midtown Manhattan... View Source

As a gathering in Washington raised hopes for an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine, investors snapped up the new US shares of the largest Ukrainian mobile operator that has former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on its board... View Source

Brazil is forcefully rejecting Washington’s allegations of unfair trade practices, describing an investigation launched by the US Trade Representative into the matter as an illegitimate use of unilateral US trade law... View Source

Dylan Patel, founder of SemiAnalysis, talks about the AI hardware landscape, GPT-5, business models, and the future of AI infrastructure with A16z Venture partners. Dylan covers Nvidia’s dominance, reactions to OpenAI’s GPT-5, monetization strategies, and threats from custom silicon. Nvidia has unassailable advantages in AI hardware: superior networking, high-performance memory (HBM),... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. agreed to buy $2 billion in Intel Corp. stock, a move that extends its US investment effort and offers a vote of confidence in the struggling chipmaker... View Source