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ST Telemedia is considering selling its holding in Chinese data center operator GDS Holdings Ltd., people familiar with the situation said... View Source

The 1132-piece buildable replica with moving parts is 18% off as Lego's Technic Mars Rover Perseverance set is one of its lowest prices on Amazon... View Source

New measurements of the galaxy at the heart of the “Cosmic Horseshoe” indicate that it could house the most massive object ever seen in the universe... View Source

Iluvatar CoreX is considering an initial public offering in Hong Kong, as investor interest in Chinese artificial intelligence chipmakers builds with Beijing discouraging local firms from using Nvidia Corp. processors... View Source

I’m a longtime lover of pen and paper, so E Ink tablets have been intriguing to me ever since they started becoming more widely available. After having hundreds of half-filled notebooks over the years, I, at some point, turned to digital tools instead because it was just easier to store everything on my phone or laptop so I always had my most important information at my fingertips.E-Ink tablets se... View Source

Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s revenue beat estimates, bolstering investor expectations that its expanding gaming and social media portfolio will provide dry powder for an intensifying global AI race... View Source

Misleading information spread online by right-wing “influencers" attending UK anti-immigrant protests this summer is adding to pressure on Prime Minister Keir Starmer, as he struggles to reduce illegal immigration... View Source

The German military is looking to secure 8,300 drone systems by the end of the decade, far fewer than some of its NATO allies aim for, as spending on unmanned defense systems and autonomous weapons soars globally... View Source

After the backlash to replacing its 4o model with GPT-5, OpenAI will no longer get rid of old models without a heads up. "In retrospect, not continuing to offer 4o, at least in the interim, was a miss," Nick Turley, OpenAI's head of ChatGPT, said on Tuesday. In an interview with The Verge, he said it was surprising to see the "level of attachment" people had to 4o. "It's not just change that is di... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. plans to sell about ¥100 billion ($676 million) of subordinated bonds, taking advantage of improved sentiment on plans to kick-start its stalled AI drive... View Source

Elon Musk must face claims by OpenAI that his attacks on the startup in court and in the media amount to a “years-long harassment campaign,” a federal judge ruled... View Source

Carlyle Group Inc. is close to selling HSO to Bain Capital in a deal valuing the Dutch technology services company at about $1 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter... View Source

Current and former executives at Stockholm-based online gambling company Evolution AB were secretly filmed describing how its casino games made their way illegally to countries such as Iran, Sudan and China, according to a filing submitted to a New Jersey court on Monday... View Source

Shares of One 97 Communications Ltd. surged to the highest level in over three years after its unit received approval from India’s central bank to operate as an online payment aggregator... View Source

Taiwanese shares are on track for a record high, buoyed by a strong outlook for artificial intelligence and exemption from some US tariffs for major chip makers... View Source

Pony AI Inc. said it was confident it would meet its 2025 robotaxi vehicle output target, while acknowledging it will still take time to commercialize the industry... View Source

United Launch Alliance launch of a Vulcan rocket with a military payload has successfully taken off. We will see if the actual satellite deployment is successful... View Source

Apple has denied Elon Musk's accusation that it's favoring OpenAI in its App Store rankings and making it impossible for other AI companies to reach the top. In a statement sent to Bloomberg, Apple said the App Store is "designed to be fair and free of bias." The company's spokesperson explained that the App Store features "thousands of apps through charts, algorithmi... View Source

Shares of Circle Internet Group Inc. fell after the second-largest stablecoin issuer and a group of shareholders including co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Jeremy Allaire announced an offering to sell 10 million shares combined... View Source

Just a few days after administrators announced that the “federal Judiciary is taking additional steps to strengthen protections for sensitive case documents in response to recent escalated cyberattacks,” the New York Times reports investigators have found evidence Russia is “at least partially responsible” for a recent hack. Politico reported on the breach last week, saying it was “believed to hav... View Source

Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study... View Source

The Federal Trade Commission announced that Match Group will pay $14 million to settle a complaint about deceptive practices. The settlement fee will be used to provide redress to injured customers of Match Group's dating services, which include Match.com, Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid, and PlentyOfFish. The agency sued Match Group in 2019 on a series of allegations. According to the complaint, the... View Source

In 2025, you might wonder if Fitbit is still relevant. Despite getting acquired by Google, Fitbit remains one of the most recognizable names in the industry. Fitbit trackers aren’t meant for the most hardcore of athletes, but they’re still excellent devices for tracking overall activity as well as monitoring certain health and wellness metrics like EKGs and blood oxygen levels.  That said, th... View Source

As tech megacaps around the world climb to new records, investors see a chance for Tencent Holdings Ltd. shares to finally regain their former glory... View Source

Google’s next Pixel launch event doesn’t happen until next week, but the company has already announced the Pixel 10 Pro Fold with a brief video teaser published on Tuesday. Based on the video, the new Fold will closely resemble the Pixel 9 Pro Fold — though that’s not a huge surprise, based on what’s already leaked about the device. The 30-second teaser includes a few shadowy glimpses of the new d... View Source

Falabella SA’s second-quarter profit rose more than expected as retail sales across the economy in Chile remain robust, even as other indicators show more subdued expansion... View Source

Workers from Blizzard Entertainment's department for Story and Franchise Development have voted to unionize. Members of the team will become members of the Communication Workers of America and Microsoft has recognized the union. The SFD team is responsible for cinematics, animation and narrative in Blizzard's series, creating content such as in-game cutscenes and promotional videos. The... View Source

ROBOTERA Unveils L7: Next-Generation Full-Size Bipedal Humanoid Robot has powerful mobility and dexterous manipulation. They are a Chinese humanoid robotics startup founded in August 2023 and spun out of Tsinghua University, China’s top university. They raised around CNY 500 million (approximately USD 70 million) in a Series A funding round led by CDH Investments and ... Read more... View Source

CoreWeave Inc. posted steeper losses as it continued to build to meet demand from artificial intelligence developers. The company’s shares fell 5% in after-hours trading... 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

To celebrate Alien: Earth landing on Hulu, we asked a zoologist if any of the Xenomorph's infamous characteristics occur in the natural world... View Source

With a smart video doorbell, your front door’s communication skills go from 1980s landline to a modern smartphone. Combining a motion-activated camera with a microphone, speaker, and buzzer, a doorbell camera sends alerts to your phone, allowing you to see who’s at the door without needing to open it or even be at home. Whether you’re curled up on the couch, hard at work in your office, or sunning... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss reports that China is urging its domestic companies to avoid using Nvidia H20 chips. Plus, Elon Musk accuses Apple of favoring OpenAI above other AI companies in its app store, even threatening possible legal action. And Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire discusses plans for new products as shares of the company soar following its earnings report. (Source: Bl... View Source

Databases used by US federal courts for sharing and managing case documents have been hacked. Politico first reported on the hack last week on August 6; today, an investigation from The New York Times states that Russia is suspected to be involved in the attack. The Administrative Office of the US Courts initially identified the severity of the cyberattack in July, although the extent of the breac... View Source

4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Written by Michael Allen An international team of astronomers using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), has challenged our understanding of what happens to matter in the direct vicinity of a black hole. With IXPE, astronomers can study incoming X-rays and measure the polarization, a property of light that... View Source

An aerial photo taken on Aug. 8, 2025 shows a view of the nearly exhausted Baitings Reservoir in Yorkshire, Britain. Reservoir levels recently have continued to fall as increased water use met lack of rain in Britain. | Photo: Getty Images Can deleting old emails and photos help the UK tackle ongoing drought this year? That’s the hope, according to recommendations for the public included in a pres... View Source

Explore This Section Earth Earth Observer Editor’s Corner Feature Articles Meeting Summaries News Science in the News Calendars In Memoriam Announcements More Archives Conference Schedules Style Guide 19 min read A Tapestry of Tales: 10th Anniversary Reflections from NASA’s OCO-2 Mission When woven together, the tapestry of experiences of staff and scientists provide the complete picture of OCO-2... View Source

The company is also looking at using its mothership aircraft that releases spacecraft at high altitude as a carrier platform for other customers... View Source

Riot Games is going to slowly introduce a WASD-based control scheme to League of Legends, which previously relied on point and click controls. “We believe that offering WASD controls will provide a fresh yet familiar way to play for both new players and veterans of the Rift without changing what makes League, League,” Riot says. The company notes that WASD is “the most familiar control scheme for... View Source

DuPont de Nemours Inc.’s electronics business, which will be spun off into the Qnity Electronics Inc. brand, priced a $4.1 billion debt offering to fund a payout to DuPont in connection with the reorganization... View Source

Studies show that writing or expressing what we are feeling can help adults mentally and physically. Kids are no different... View Source

A foldable phone isn’t for the faint of heart. They’re generally heavier, pricier, and have less capable cameras than a standard slab-style phone. And while they’re far less fragile than when they first debuted, foldables are still susceptible to the kind of damage a regular smartphone can shrug off. You really don’t want any dust getting in that hinge. But if you’re an adventurous sort of gadget... View Source

Opendoor Technologies Inc. has resumed its surge after cryptocurrency investor and influential newsletter writer and podcaster Anthony Pompliano said he’d bought shares in the digital real estate firm... View Source

Meta's X competitor, Threads, is continuing to add users at a brisk clip, with the social network now surpassing 400 million monthly active users. The news, reported by Fast Company, follows Threads reaching the 300 million mark in December 2024 and the 200 million mark in August 2024. FC also cited data from Similarweb that showed mobile performance for Threads drawing closer to the figures... View Source

Left: Gigantic Jet Event from the International Space Station, taken by NASA Astronaut Nichole Ayers. (Credit: Ayers) Right: Sprite event appearing over a lightning strike, seen from space. This photo was taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station during Expedition 44. Credit: NASA astronauts on board Expedition 44 Did you see that gorgeous photo NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers took o... View Source

With just one year until the total solar eclipse of 2026, we take a look at everything you need to know for the ultimate eclipse adventure... View Source

Krafton has fired another shot in its legal battle with former executives of Subnautica 2 studio Unknown Worlds, who filed a lawsuit last month, claiming the South Korean publisher undermined the game’s release to avoid paying them a bonus. In its response, Krafton claims that the three plaintiffs, Ted Gill, Charlie Cleveland, and Max McGuire, had “lost interest in developing Subnautica 2.” The st... View Source

The race to build computing capacity for artificial intelligence is reviving bullish bets on one of Wall Street’s most contentious stocks: CoreWeave Inc... View Source

Researchers are alarmed that an expansive executive order issued by President Donald Trump might upend a long-standing tradition of peer-review for grants... View Source

Ever since the launch of ChatGPT, AI companies have been racing to gain a foothold in government in more ways than one. Most recently, that's meant luring government users with attractive low prices for their products. Within the last week, both OpenAI and Anthropic have introduced special prices for government versions of their generative AI chatbots, ChatGPT and Claude, and xAI announced its Gro... View Source

Albemarle Corp. experienced an incident at its lithium-processing plant in Chile last week, which is the subject of an investigation, the latest threat to global supply of the battery metal... View Source

Previously, if you wanted a monitor for competitive gaming, you had to choose between an IPS or VA panel to get something with a super high refresh rate or opt for a slower OLED display with richer colors and better contrast. But today, Samsung is changing that with the Odyssey OLED G6, which is the first 500Hz OLED gaming monitor in the world. Available for $1,000, the Odyssey OLED G6 (G60SF) onl... View Source

Marine protected areas cover more than 8% of the world's oceans today, but they can get a bad rap as being protected on paper only... View Source

The AI coding wars are heating up. One of the main battlegrounds? "Context windows," or an AI model's working memory - the amount of text it can take into account when it's coming up with an answer. On that front, Anthropic just gained some ground. Today, the AI startup announced a 5x increase in its context window as it races to compete with OpenAI, Google, and other major players. Context window... View Source

Fractal Analytics, a provider of artificial intelligence and analytics services, filed for an initial public offering in Mumbai that could value the company at more than $3.5 billion... View Source

Alien: Earth delivers everything you'd want from a series with "Alien" in the title: The iconic Xenomorphs hunting down hapless humans; gratuitous body horror; and androids who you can never fully trust. But writer/director Noah Hawley (Legion, Fargo) and his team also manage to push the franchise to new heights, delving into the philosophical questions that Ridley Scott's Prom... View Source

If you’re hosting a small get-together or hangout at the park, a small speaker like the UE Wonderboom 4 can provide the soundtrack. It’s the kind of gadget that fades into the background yet remains as important as the food and drink. And right now, it’s down to just $59.99 ($40 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and B&H Photo, which is its lowest price to date. Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 4 Where to Buy:... View Source

Terraform Labs Pte. co-founder Do Kwon pleaded guilty to charges in a US fraud prosecution tied to the $40 billion collapse of the TerraUSD stablecoin in 2022... View Source

Riot is making a major change to League of Legends after 16 years. It's adding the option to move around by using WASD controls instead of relying on a mouse to point and click, according to a video detailing the upcoming change. Paul Bellezza, an executive producer on the game, says this is an attempt to attract new players. "We found that a lot of new or returning players struggle a lo... View Source

The annual Perseid meteor shower will peak overnight Tuesday (Aug. 12), and you can enjoy the event live online with the Virtual Telescope Project's webcast... View Source

Perplexity has just offered to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion — a bid that’s far more than the AI search startup itself is valued at, according to reports from The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg. The startup sent the unsolicited bid on Tuesday, just months after Perplexity said it would buy Chrome if the government forces Google to sell its browser. The startup also offered to buy TikTok e... View Source

South Africa’s government is locked in crisis talks with the local unit of ArcelorMittal SA to decide the fate of the company’s loss-making construction-steel mill, people familiar with the matter said... View Source

Google is officially rolling out Preferred Sources, which lets you curate search results. The feature allows you to pick specific or "preferred" sources, like a certain blog or news outlet, and see them more prominently when you use Google Search. Google started testing it in June and it should be available in the coming days to English language users in the US and India. Preferred Sourc... View Source

Europe's Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket will launch for the third time ever tonight (Aug. 12), and you can watch the action live... View Source

Issue You just want to search your archived photos, instead of interacting with an AI assistant. Quick fix Inside the app, tap the Google account button at top-right, then go to Photos settings > Preferences > Gemini features in Photos, and turn off either "Search with Ask Photos" or "Use Gemini in Photos". The full story When Google rolled out its new AI-powered 'Ask Photos' search tool, I... View Source

AI startup Perplexity said it made an unsolicited bid for Google’s Chrome browser for $34.5 billion. The Trump administration is pushing for Google to sell the Chrome browser after a federal judge found Google has an illegal monopoly in internet search. Google is not selling Chrome. Bloomberg's Seth Fiegerman reports on "Bloomberg Technology." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Apple's AirPods could be getting a live translation feature in the near future as part of iOS 26, according to a report by 9to5Mac. A new beta version of the operating system dropped today and users have spotted a system asset that strongly points to the earbuds getting a language translation tool. The asset appears to depict a gesture that's triggered by pressing both earbud stems at on... View Source

Find out how this simple algorithm from the 1960s keeps your wallet safe... View Source

Alien: Earth's two-episode premiere is released today and you can watch it anywhere with our exclusive 79% off NordVPN deal, but you'll have to hurry... View Source

Apple Cinemas, a theater chain not affiliated with Apple, has responded to Apple’s recent lawsuit over alleged trademark infringement, as reported by MacRumors. In its lawsuit, Apple alleged that Apple Cinemas and owner Sand Media have tried to “capitalize on the highly-regarded Apple brand” in connection with an “aggressive nationwide expansion.” “We are committed to defending our brand, our hist... View Source

AI startup Perplexity said it made a formal offer to acquire Google’s Chrome browser for $34.5 billion, in anticipation of requirements that may be imposed on the search giant in antitrust proceedings... View Source

Anthropic has announced it will offer its Claude AI model to all three branches of the US government for $1, following OpenAI offering an almost identical deal last week. These deals both follow the General Services Administration adding OpenAI, Gemini and Anthropic to a list of approved AI vendors for the federal government. Similar to the OpenAI deal, Anthropic will offer access to its commercia... View Source

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a portion of the Tarantula Nebula.ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures incredible details in the dusty clouds of a star-forming factory called the Tarantula Nebula. Most of the nebulae Hubble images are in our galaxy, but this nebula is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy located ab... View Source

Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and wire fraud three years after his collapsed cryptocurrency firm wiped out $40 billion in funds, according to a report from Bloomberg. Kwon entered his plea in a New York court on Tuesday as part of a deal reached with prosecutors that reduced his charges. Federal prosecutors in New York charged Kwon after his firm’s Terra stable... View Source

Growing worries that artificial intelligence tools could soon disrupt the world’s biggest software businesses are sparking a selloff across the sector... View Source

Are you a TV watcher with commitment issues? Sling TV thinks it has the answer in the shape of its new one-day passes. The app-based alternative to traditional cable will sell you a $5 Day Pass that allows you to stream live TV (including sports)from any channel included in its Sling Orange plan for 24 hours. Sling Orange costs $46 per month and includes the likes of the Disney Channel and various... View Source

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be a discovery machine, thanks to its wide field of view and resulting torrent of data. Scheduled to launch no later than May 2027, with the team working toward launch as early as fall 2026, its near-infrared Wide Field Instrument will capture an area 200 times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope’s infrared camera, and with the same image sharpness... View Source

A conceptual mission known as "Persephone" could explore Pluto and its moons for 50 years  — if it ever gets funded and approved... View Source

The MacBook Pro 14 (2025, M4) is currently on sale for $1,299.99 ($300 off) at Amazon and Best Buy. The MacBook Pro 14 with M4 is one of our top laptop recommendations for students, and it’s currently $1,299 ($300 off), an all-time low price at Amazon and Best Buy. In our tests, Apple’s entry-level pro laptop was powerful enough to process high-resolution raw files in Adobe’s Lightroom Classic wit... View Source

Gameto Inc., a biotech company working on stem-cell therapies for women’s health, has raised $44 million in venture capital to help fund a clinical trial for its product that aims to improve the egg-freezing experience... View Source

Samsung’s first Micro RGB TV is initially only available in a 115-inch model. | Image: Samsung First teased at CES 2025, Samsung has finally launched a TV featuring the company’s new Micro RGB backlight technology. The 115-inch TV is first launching in South Korea for over $32,000, according to SamMobile, but Samsung says it’s coming to the US next, followed by a wider global rollout with more siz... View Source

Mexican fintech Stori is betting that it can be ready for an initial public offering in 24 months after reaching sustainable profitability this year, Chief Executive Officer Bin Chen said... View Source

Amazon has just dropped a trailer for the final season of Upload, the tech-centric comedy about a digital afterlife that's way too real at times (mild spoilers ahead). Created by Greg Daniels (The Office, Parks and Recreation, King of the Hill), it's set in an advanced future replete with things like holographic phones, killer self-driving cars and (killer) AI assistants. But since this... View Source

United Launch Alliance is set to launch an experimental navigation satellite on the first national security mission of its new Vulcan Centaur rocket on Aug. 12. Watch it live here... View Source

Hello there, world! Welcome to the first 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. For anyone who subscribed via our Instagram announcement: I am so, so sorry that I didn't use the proper song to announce the launch of Regulator, which is, of cour... View Source

In an exclusive interview, Chairman Jimmy Pitaro explains why the gold standard in sports media reversed course on streaming... View Source

Epic has spent the last five years fighting Apple's in-app purchase policies. Now, after half a decade, the Epic Games Store and Fortnite will once again be available on iOS in Australia. A judge has found Apple's conduct likely diminished competition, in part for not allowing alternative payment methods, the Australian Financial Review reports. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Epic an... View Source

Sling TV has launched a new option that lets you watch live content without signing up for a streaming or cable subscription. Now, you can pay $4.99 for a “day pass,” offering 24 hours of live and on-demand access to several channels, including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3, TNT, A&E, Disney Channel, CNN, and others. Sling TV also offers a weekend pass from Friday through Sunday for $9.99, along with a s... View Source

The new director of the US government’s human resources agency wants to make it easier to fire federal workers, drop college degree requirements for certain jobs, and even potentially steer pension money into a sovereign wealth fund... View Source

No matter how old you get, the back-to-school season will always bring a desire to shop. So, sales at this time of year are always more than welcome — especially when they're on some of our favorite devices. Such is the case with the 10 percent discount currently available on the Sonos Era 100.  Our choice for midrange smart speaker is down to $179 from $199 as part of a larger sale on the So... View Source

Test out your knowledge of these famous firsts in skywatching and astrophotography, from the first photos of Earth and the moon to the invention of telescopes!... View Source

FX’s Alien: Earth — Pictured: Sydney Chandler as Wendy. CR: Patrick Brown/FX | FX While the monsters in each of the nine Alien movies have been a little bit different, the nefarious corporate forces have remained the same. Ridley Scott's original Alien didn't need to mention Weyland-Yutani by name for it to be clear that a singular mega-company had cornered the market on space exploration. But sub... View Source

Indian tech entrepreneur Bhavin Turakhia is partnering GoDaddy Inc. to offer his artificial intelligence-led email service — Titan — to tens of millions of new users in an enterprise market dominated by Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google... View Source

One downside to a fitness trackers is that they’re rarely able to understand the context in which their users live. It’s an issue Oura is looking to remedy by launching two sets of features intended to help people during pregnancy and when they reach perimenopause. Given both processes are liable to take a toll, causing physical, mental and emotional changes, having a smart ring that understands w... View Source

Don’t compare AI bunnies to phone camera processing, Sam. I'm annoyed, not for the first time, by something Sam Altman has said. But this time it's because I'm annoyed at how much I agree with what he's saying - even though I think his statement is kind of bullshit. In a recent interview, journalist Cleo Abram asked Altman how people will be able to tell what's real and what's not in an age of con... View Source

Chicago’s bid to become a key driver of new technologies including life sciences is about to get a $100 million boost... View Source

Elon Musk has accused Apple of committing an "unequivocal antitrust violation" by favoring OpenAI in the App Store rankings. In a post on X, he claimed that Apple has made it impossible for other AI companies to reach number one in those rankings and that xAI "will take immediate legal action." Musk didn't clarify what he meant by that, and he also didn't provide evid... View Source

The Tarantula nebula was recently captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, where the Scylla program helped create the colored image of this star-forming area... View Source

Microsoft is starting to roll out lightweight taskbar apps for Microsoft 365 users on Windows 11. These taskbar apps will automatically launch at startup and provide quick access to contacts, file search, and calendar straight from the Windows taskbar. The Microsoft 365 companion apps, as Microsoft calls them, are starting to roll out to business users of Microsoft 365 this month. The People compa... View Source

Western Union Co., the 175-year-old remittance giant, is considering launching its own dollar-backed stablecoin, as a growing number of cryptocurrency projects compete with its core business of moving money across international borders... View Source

Nicknamed 'Punctum,' this puzzling phenomenon is highly energetic, but is only seen in millimeter-wavelength light and cannot be explained by any known object... View Source

There’s a sore loser in this popularity contest. Elon Musk says that his artificial intelligence company xAI “will take immediate legal action” against Apple for allegedly manipulating its App Store rankings to the advantage of rival AI apps. In a series of X posts on Monday night, Musk suggested that Apple was “playing politics” by not placing either X or xAI’s Grok chatbot in the App Store’s lis... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Vlad Savov looks at the outburst of optimism about big tech names in Japan, where gaming and AI are fueling stocks to new highs... View Source

A couple of months since the Switch 2 launched, we’ve all got to grips with the new magnetic-latching Joy-Cons, the jump in graphic fidelity and (honestly) the wait for a next-gen Zelda or Mario title. With the arrival of Donkey Kong Bananza, the new console has its first entirely new breakout platformer hit, we asked the Engadget team for the must-have games on the Switch 2. CD Projekt Red With a... View Source

This telescope has revealed the whipped-up dust from the birth of a star—and a shining background galaxy—more clearly than ever before... View Source

'Alien: Earth' is the first-ever Alien TV show and it's finally arrived. Here's how to watch 'Alien: Earth' wherever you are on the planet... View Source

Taylor Swift at NFL Game. Taylor Swift leaned into her love for symbolism with the announcement of her dozenth album, titled The Life of a Showgirl.  TS12 was introduced in a teaser — already viewed over 65 million times — for the next episode of the New Heights podcast airing Wednesday, hosted by boyfriend Travis Kelce and his big brother Jason. Tay extracted the $29.99 album from a bri... View Source

Sea Ltd. second-quarter sales beat analysts’ estimates as more of Southeast Asia’s consumers turn to online shopping for anything from iPhones to daily groceries... View Source

On Monday, Ford introduced an innovative new manufacturing process that it says will help make its EVs more sustainable, more desirable, and more importantly, more affordable. The timing couldn't have been worse. EV tax credits were set to expire at the end of September. President Trump's trade war was tilting the balance in favor of China's EVs. And automakers are beginning to delay and even canc... View Source

United Launch Alliance is set to perform its first national security mission with its newly developed Vulcan rocket, a key test of the vehicle’s ability to put satellites into high orbits above the Earth... View Source

There's arguably no piece of tech more important for a college student than a good laptop. Whether you’re working on an essay, doing research for a paper or just need some downtime streaming your favorite show, a solid laptop for college is an investment that can (and should) last you for years. While the best laptops come in all shapes and sizes and range in price, college students don’t need a p... View Source

Epic Games has announced that it’s bringing Fortnite back to iOS in Australia, after the country’s federal court ruled that Apple and Google’s app marketplaces are anticompetitive. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney said on X that Fortnite will be made available on iPhones via the Epic Games Store “at a date to be determined,” while the company navigates the complexities of Australia’s antitrust ruling. Epic su... View Source

A study of plastic bottles washed up on the Pacific coast of Latin America has identified a double problem—a mass of local waste combined with long-traveling bottles from Asia... View Source

Kuaishou Technology shares tumbled the most in four months Tuesday on concerns over the Chinese live-streaming platform’s entry into the nation’s red-hot food delivery sector... View Source

Leonis Capital has secured $25 million for a new fund to help uncover the next OpenAI... View Source

A mouse may seem like a small consideration for your workstation setup. But after you’ve addressed the crucial ergonomics — raising your monitor to eye-level, using the right keyboard and taking frequent breaks throughout your workdays — it’s a good idea to make sure the mouse you use is comfortable as well. People dealing with conditions like carpal tunnel and wrist pain may be interested in find... View Source

China has urged local companies to avoid using Nvidia Corp.’s H20 processors, particularly for government-related purposes, complicating the chipmaker’s attempts to recoup billions in lost China revenue as well as the Trump administration’s unprecedented push to turn those sales into a US government windfall... View Source

Yearly spectacle, most visible in northern hemisphere, is caused by Earth passing through debris of ancient cometIt is time for stargazers to dig out the deckchairs to try to enjoy what is considered to be one of the best meteor showers of the year.The Perseids are expected to peak on the night of 12 August, although they have been active from mid-July and will continue to be visible for a further... View Source

It sounds like President Trump no longer thinks Intel's CEO should resign. Trump has revealed on Truth Social that he met with Lip-Bu Tan, Howard Lutnick, the Secretary of Commerce, and Howard Lutnick, the Secretary of the Treasury. He didn't discuss the details of their meeting, but he described it as "a very interesting one." Trump added: "His success and rise is an amaz... View Source

Elon Musk lashed out against Apple Inc.’s app store practices late on Monday, accusing the iPhone maker of favoring OpenAI... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp.’s shares jumped as much as 8% on Tuesday on bets that the tech investor would be able to capitalize on its years-long focus on artificial intelligence... View Source

Tesla is passing Waymo in the next two or four months. The expansion of Tesla robotaxi services in the SF Bay Area and Austin to allow open usage to whoever wants to book will require 2 to 5 cars per square mile. This means 2000-5000 ridesharing vehicles for the 1000+ square miles of the SF ... Read more... View Source

MARA Holdings Inc. has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Exaion from Electricite de France SA as the largest Bitcoin miner looks to extend its reach into artificial intelligence as an infrastructure provider... View Source

Sinclair Inc., one of the largest TV station owners in the US, has begun a strategic review that could result in sale or breakup of the company... View Source

Experts say the painful infection, spread to people from mosquitoes, can get to many countries if it finds the right hosts... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Nvidia’s and AMD’s agreement to pay 15% of their revenues from Chinese artificial intelligence chip sales to the US government. Analysts and investors react to the “unprecedented” deal. Plus, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan is set to meet with President Donald Trump, after the US leader called his resignation.  (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

DARPA and the Navy had envisioned hyper-efficient cargo planes able to move thousands of tons by leveraging extra lift by flying close to the ground. Regent craft has a working 12 passenger version and has sales for a 100 passenger seaplane that would be about three times more fuel efficient than other planes. They do ... Read more... View Source

On Monday, Anthropic released a hotly anticipated memory function for its Claude chatbot. In a YouTube video, the company demonstrated a user asking what they had been chatting about with Claude before their vacation. Claude searches past chats to read and summarize them for the user, then asks if they’d like to move on and keep working on the same project. “Never lose track of your work again,” t... View Source

Clearlake Capital Group-backed Quest Software is shuffling the order that its creditors get repaid for the second time in three months as it launches another debt exchange to lessen its debt load... View Source

Claude is getting a better, if selective, memory. Rather than acting as perfect catalog of everything you've talked about or shared, Anthropic says the AI chatbot now has the ability to reference past chats when asked, so you don't have to re-explain yourself. The feature seems like it could help you pick up a work project after time away, or query Claude for the details of a past resear... View Source

2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The Artemis II Orion stage adapter, built at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. NASA Media are invited to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, at 2 p.m. CDT Thursday, Aug. 14 to view the final piece of space flight hardware for the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket... View Source

Reddit says that it has caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, so it’s going to start blocking the Internet Archive from indexing the vast majority of Reddit. The Wayback Machine will no longer be able to crawl post detail pages, comments, or profiles; instead, it will only be able to index the Reddit.com homepage, which effectively means Internet Archiv... View Source

The Nvidia chip deal just helps Beijing achieve its AI goals, explains Bloomberg Opinion columnist Dave Lee. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The latest example of bias permeating artificial intelligence comes from the medical field. A new study surveyed real case notes from 617 adult social care workers in the UK and found that when large language models summarized the notes, they were more likely to omit language such as "disabled," "unable" or "complex" when the patient was tagged as female, which could... View Source

Credit: NASA NASA has selected KBR Wyle Services, LLC of Fulton, Maryland, to provide services to the Human Health and Performance Directorate at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, which focuses on astronaut health, occupational health, and research that could help mitigate health risks for future human spaceflight missions. The Human Health and Performance Contract 2 is a follow-on sin... View Source

The Switch 2 can be enjoyed right out of the box, but it’s even better with the right accessories. Some of these add-ons are more crucial than others, especially if you’re deciding what to buy early on. For example, a case and a screen protector can keep your console safe from scuffs, scratches, and drops, so both are what I’d consider to be essential. On the other hand, a microSD Express card let... View Source

Four astronauts returned to Earth on Saturday after hustling to the International Space Station five months ago to relieve the stuck test pilots of Boeing’s Starliner. Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the Pacific off the Southern California coast a day after departing the orbiting lab. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order extending lower tariffs with China for another 90 days, CNBC reports. The new executive order was signed before the previous agreement was set to end on August 12 at midnight. The extension will maintain the current 30 percent tariff on goods from China while representatives from both countries negotiate a new trade deal. The previous agreement... View Source

This artist’s concept shows NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory orbiting above Earth.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (KBRwyle) To drive the development of key space-based capabilities for the United States, NASA is exploring an opportunity to demonstrate technology to raise a spacecraft’s orbit to a higher altitude. Two American companies – Cambrian Works of Reston,... View Source

Scotland-based Skyrora has received the first U.K.-issued vertical launch license for a homegrown company, enabling rocket launches from SaxaVord Spaceport in the Shetland Islands... View Source

You can added canister vacs to the growing list of connected appliances. | Image: Miele Despite the convenience of cordless stick vacs, canister vacuums are still very much a thing for those with battery anxiety or those who want a lighter cleaner. Miele still offers over 20 different models of canister vacs in the US, but its latest is the company’s first to introduce smart functionality making i... View Source

Terraform Labs Pte. co-founder Do Kwon may plead guilty in a US criminal fraud case tied to the $40 billion collapse of the TerraUSD stablecoin in 2022... View Source

"This particular meteor that entered the atmosphere has a long history before it made it to the ground of McDonough"... View Source

A Revel charging station in Brooklyn in 2022. Revel is shutting down its ridehail business, citing heightened competition from rideshare leaders like Uber and Lyft. The company, which began as an electric moped business before shifting to rideshare, plans to pivot to electric vehicle charging. “At the end of the day, rideshare is a very competitive market and asset-heavy,” Revel CEO Frank Reig sai... View Source

3 Min Read Space Station Cell Studies Cells grown aboard the International Space Station. Credits: University of Connecticut Science in Space August 2025 Cells are the basic building blocks of all living things, from single-celled bacteria to plants and animals containing vast numbers of them. Cells have adapted for a wide variety of settings and functions. Nerve cells in humans and animals, for e... View Source

Our quiz will test your smarts of which planets go where in our solar system... View Source

Have you heard of Natalie the Nerd? She’s a pillar of the Nintendo Game Boy modding scene who taught herself to reverse engineer and design Game Boy circuit boards. Now, she’s put her skills to work in probably the most beautiful build I’ve ever seen: a working see-through Game Boy Color where even the circuit board is made of clear plastic. Because she designed and created that board herself from... View Source

There's nothing quite like the drive to build something just to see if you can. YouTuber polymatt set out to create a floppy disk drive, the favored storage medium of yesteryear, from scratch, because why not. For anyone born too late to have regularly used one, a floppy disk is a magnetically coated, flexible polyester disk encased in a protective shell. Insert it into a floppy drive, and a... View Source

An artist’s concept of the Moon (right) and Mars (center) against the starry expanse of space. A sliver of the Earth’s horizon can be seen in the foreground.Credit: NASA NASA is accepting U.S. submissions for the second phase of the agency’s LunaRecycle Challenge, a Moon-focused recycling competition. The challenge aims to develop solutions for recycling common trash materials – like fabrics, plas... View Source

The OnePlus Watch 3 starts at $269.99 ($30 off) for the new 43mm model. | Image: The Verge / OnePlus OnePlus has kicked off its back-to-school sale, and the deals are pretty solid. There are discounts on the company’s impressive tablets, but the highlights are the new low prices on its smartwatches. Right now, you can buy the 43mm OnePlus Watch 3 for $269.99 ($30 off), while the 46mm is $319.99 ($... View Source

Paramount has acquired the exclusive rights to show all events from the Ultimate Fighting Championship in the US over the next seven years, the companies announced Monday, a $7.7 billion deal designed to boost the Paramount+ streaming service... View Source

Revel Transit is shutting down its rideshare operation in NYC, as reported by Bloomberg. The company will instead focus its efforts on EV charging. It's also seeking buyers for its fleet, including the 165 for-hire vehicle license plates it owns. "At the end of the day, rideshare is a very competitive market and asset-heavy. It’s low margin," CEO Frank Reig said. “We have made the d... View Source

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered dormant galaxies with a wide range of masses in the first billion years after the Big Bang, moving one step closer to understanding how early galaxies grow... View Source

iRobot, maker of the iconic Roomba robot vacuum, announced its second-quarter earnings late last week, and the numbers keep going down. Despite launching an entirely new product line, its revenue declined 23 percent to $127.6 million from the previous quarter, with the lucrative US and European markets being hit hardest. The company has struggled in the face of increased competition from Chinese m... View Source

Early Monday morning, a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from its original launch site in Florida. Remarkably, it was SpaceX's 100th launch of the year. Perhaps even more notable was the rocket's payload: two-dozen Project Kuiper satellites, which were dispensed into low-Earth orbit on target. This was SpaceX's second launch of satellites for Amazon, which is developing a constellation to deliver low-la... View Source

For Remington Hotchkis, devising an idea for saving homes from fires was the easy part. Identifying an actual product he could make was harder... View Source

Did Tesla remotely deactivate a Cybertruck in the middle of a highway because the owner featured it in an unauthorized music video? It’s highly unlikely. On Sunday, Instagram user @bighuey313 posted a video of his supposed deactivated Cybertruck, complete with a flashing red warning message on the truck’s main touchscreen. “Dog wtf my cybertruck just shut off on the freeway! 😡” he wrote in the cap... View Source

Walt Disney Co.’s ESPN and Fox Corp. plan to offer a bundled package that will include both of their new streaming services for $40 a month... View Source

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is the latest victim of Reddit's crackdown on data access. The company has begun to place new restrictions on what the archive site will be able to access in a move that will significantly limit the Wayback Machine's ability to preserve information from Reddit. With the change, the Wayback Machine, a project run by the nonprofit Internet Archiv... View Source

NASA/Keegan Barber The members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission – Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, left, NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi – are all smiles after having landed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, Calif., Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. The crew spent seven months aboard the International Spac... View Source

Figure AI videos of the Helix Humanoid Robot loading washing machines in a residential setting and sorting objects from a conveyor belt for industrial settings... View Source

The Perseids are the best annual meteor shower, but this year’s show will be dimmed by a bright gibbous moon... View Source

Conservative activist Robby Starbuck will serve as an advisor at Meta to address “ideological and political bias” within the company’s AI chatbot, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The move comes as part of a settlement Meta reached with Starbuck, who filed a lawsuit claiming Meta AI wrongly stated he was involved in the January 6th Capitol riot. Starbuck has waged public pressur... View Source

US President Donald Trump signaled on Monday that he’d be open to allowing Nvidia Corp. to sell a scaled-back version of its most advanced AI chip to China... View Source

Blippo+, the zany cable TV simulator that debuted with Playdate's Season Two, now has its release date for Nintendo Switch and PC. It lands on September 23 and will be in color, unlike on Playdate. Blippo+ is expected to come to Mac this fall too. Blippo+ is kind of the perfect antidote to streaming fatigue if weird is your cup of tea. It has its own version of the endlessly scrolling TV Guid... View Source

Before the Xenomorph crash-lands on streaming, we talked to five Alien: Earth cast members about the difficulties and fun of navigating the giant sci-fi show... View Source

Microsoft is moving GitHub into its CoreAI team, following the resignation of GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke today. After nearly four years as CEO, Dohmke is leaving GitHub to “become a startup founder again,” and pursue opportunities outside of Microsoft and GitHub. GitHub has operated as a separate company ever since Microsoft acquired it in 2018 for $7.5 billion, but Dohmke’s departure is part of a b... View Source

Intel Corp. Chief Executive officer Lip-Bu Tan is expected to meet with US President Donald Trump, four days after Trump called for Tan’s resignation and accused him of having conflicts of interest... View Source

Paramount just acquired the US rights to UFC for seven years in a deal worth $7.7 billion dollars, according to reporting by NBC News. This contract begins in 2026 and covers the organization's full slate of 13 marquee bouts and 30 Fight Night events per year. All matches and events will stream in the US on Paramount+ and select fights will simulcast on CBS. This ends the pay-per-view (PPV) m... View Source

Companies are experimenting with deep-sea tech to produce cheaper fresh water... View Source

Scientists are making milestones on NASA's Roman Space Telescope as Trump continues to threaten the agency's science budget... View Source

Ford just announced its new universal EV platform that is expected to rein in costs for the company's money losing EV business. Chief among those cost savings will be a much, much smaller battery. Ford said the new battery will be 15 percent smaller than that of a BYD Atto electric crossover. BYD uses the same lithium iron phosphate (LFP) chemistry that Ford says it will use in its future EVs, sta... View Source

The chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp.’s GitHub is leaving after almost four years running the software coding platform... View Source

ESPN and Fox both launch their live sports streaming services later this month, and now the two companies have announced that you can bundle them at a discount. Starting October 2nd, you can purchase a subscription to ESPN’s standalone streaming service and Fox One for $39.99 per month, offering savings of about $10. Fox One, priced at $19.99 per month by itself, offers access to news and sports a... View Source

Documents detail Citigroup’s efforts to continue to do lawful business with Heritage Trust after Suleiman Kerimov was sanctioned in 2018. The bank said it’s been fully transparent and acted in compliance with US laws and regulations... View Source

Despite the impending loss of federal rebates, Ford plans to give US EV production a huge boost. After hyping it last week as a "breakthrough" and "Model T moment," the company has announced the Ford Universal EV Platform to be shared by a new family of products. The first of those will be a midsized pickup with a starting price of around $30,000, likely similar in configuratio... View Source

ESA's Mars Express spacecraft has been imaging the dynamic Acheron Fossae region of Mars for more than 20 years... View Source

Kuxiu’s magnetic charger can free up an iPad’s USB-C port for other accessories. | Image: Kuxiu Apple still hasn’t brought wireless charging to the iPad, but Kuxiu’s new charger brings similar functionality and convenience to the iPad Pro and iPad Air. Like wireless chargers for the iPhone, the M30 magnetically attaches to the back of supported iPad models, but instead of transferring power throug... View Source

The Cleveland Clinic and startup Piramidal are developing an AI model trained on brain wave data to monitor intensive care patients... View Source

Rumble Inc. is weighing an offer to buy German data center company Northern Data AG in an all-stock deal valuing the target at about $1.17 billion that would boost the conservative video service’s bid to become a cloud-computing provider... View Source

Unlike two of its biggest rivals, Sony waited until April to unveil its latest soundbars rather than debut them at CES in January. And even then, the two most premium options in the company’s 2025 lineup remain untouched. Instead, Sony gave us the Bravia Theater Bar 6 ($650): a 3.1.2-channel Dolby Atmos soundbar that comes with a wireless subwoofer and a modest set of features. However, the caveat... View Source

The Trump administration has ordered Nvidia and AMD to pay the federal government a 15 percent cut of their AI chip sales revenue to China, according to reports from The New York Times and The Financial Times. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reportedly reached an agreement with President Donald Trump just days before the Commerce Department granted the companies licenses to sell AI chips. The approved shi... View Source

Explore the words of science past from Scientific American... 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

The screenshot shows the pixel art painted over Maceió, Brazil. A new website that lets you paint over a world map with other users in real-time has taken the digital illustration community by storm.  Wplace is a collaborative pixel art platform that serves as a spiritual successor to Reddit’s r/Place April Fools’ Day experiments, placing time restrictions on drawing tools that motivate users... View Source

Blue Apron is moving away from the weekly subscription model it pioneered to sell a-la-carte meal kits that require zero or little preparation, as it caters to shifting consumer preferences for more budget-friendly and convenient food options... View Source

This 30W charger is available now, but only in Europe. Repairable phone manufacturer Fairphone has announced a new range of USB cables and chargers. While they’re not user-repairable, the company says that they’re more durable and sustainably manufactured than its previous peripherals. And even for people without a Fairphone device, they should make for a more affordable entry point to its more et... View Source

C3.ai Inc. tumbled 30% in premarket trading after a steep sales miss the software company attributed to its founder’s health issues... View Source

Yes, summer might be coming to a close sooner than any of us would like, but that doesn't mean the outdoor fun has to end.  Currently, Ultimate Ears' Wonderboom 4 Bluetooth speaker is down to $60 from $100 in blue and black. The 40 percent discount brings the speaker to a record-low price. It's one of our picks for best portable Bluetooth speakers for 2025 thanks to features like its 14 hours... View Source

The Perseid meteor shower takes place each year as Earth travels through the debris shed by comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle... View Source

Paramount has just snapped up the rights to the UFC, joining an industry-wide race to buy up remaining sports streaming rights. The $7.7 billion deal will bring 30 of the UFC’s “Fight Nights” and 13 marquee events to Paramount Plus subscribers for seven years starting in 2026 — no pay-per-view required. Paramount, which merged with Skydance just days ago, won’t charge subscribers more for access t... View Source

Revel Transit Inc. plans to wind down rideshare operations after weathering stiff competition in its home city of New York, pivoting to an EV-charging business that counts Uber Technologies Inc. as a partner rather than rival... View Source

New research is revealing how disease-smelling dogs can excel... View Source

Micron Technology Inc. raised its fiscal fourth-quarter revenue, earnings, gross margin and operating expense outlook, citing “improved pricing,” particularly in a key memory-product category... View Source

The debate over whether AI chipmakers should be allowed to sell their products to China has taken an unusual turn. The US government has reportedly given NVIDIA and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) permission to make the sales but for one big catch: 15 percent of the sales. The news was first reported by The Financial Times, which cited multiple people familiar with the agreement.  In July, NVIDI... View Source

An artificial intelligence breakthrough uses reinforcement learning to tackle the Andrews-Curtis conjecture, solving long-standing counterexamples and hinting at tools for forecasting stock crashes, diseases and climate disasters... View Source

This long-exposure image from the International Space Station shows the growing tension between celestial beauty and human expansion into space... View Source

Hyundai’s latest Ioniq 5 model. Hyundai is now offering an “optional” security upgrade for the Ioniq 5 in the UK that prevents the car being stolen with a Game Boy-like device. Hyundai wants some Ioniq 5 owners to pay £49 ($65) to upgrade hardware and software components to prevent thieves using handheld devices to unlock and start cars without needing a key. Kia, Hyundai, and Genesis EVs have bee... View Source

For Matter, this year was never going to be about flashy new features. Other than support for security cameras, which I hear should finally arrive this fall, 2025 is all about fixing problems. And with Matter 1.4.2, announced today, the smart home standard is taking an encouraging step forward. Back in January, Tobin Richardson, president and CEO of the Connectivity Standards Alliance (the organiz... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Ian King looks at the challenge facing Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan after criticism from President Donald Trump urging his resignation... View Source