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A small but growing number of academics are improperly taking credit for articles, citations, and authorships, allowing them to appear prestigious without having conducted their own research... View Source

BitMine Immersion Technologies Inc. has become the top foreign equity pick among South Korean retail investors, who continue to be drawn to the kind of high-risk, high-reward opportunities on offer in crypto... View Source

Cherry tomato-sized space rock that pierced roof and hit floor of metro Atlanta home is 20m years older than EarthA cherry tomato-sized fireball that crashed through the roof of a metro Atlanta house in June was a meteorite 20m years older than Earth, a scientist has determined.In a news release on Friday, University of Georgia planetary geologist Scott Harris said that he arrived at that conclusi... View Source

AOL dial-up is ending on September 30th according to a statement posted on the company’s website. It marks the end of the service that was synonymous with the internet for many since its launch in 1991.  “AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to discontinue Dial-up Internet,” reads the statement by the Yahoo-owned company. “This service will no longer be available in AO... View Source

The Nintendo Switch 2 didn’t come out of the gate with a host of exclusive, must-play games. But we’re a few months into the console’s lifecycle now and there are a variety of Switch 2-only games that are worth your cash, as well as a bunch of original Switch games that have received improvements for the new console And there’s also a robust selection of third-party games that have been on other c... View Source

S4 Capital Plc, the advertising agency founded by Martin Sorrell, is in talks to combine with private equity-owned MSQ Partners... View Source

A Malaysian company has designed an AI large language model for Muslims based on open-source AI knowhow from China’s DeepSeek, one of the latest efforts to target a market of some 2 billion people... View Source

Shopee now dominates the Southeast Asian e-commerce market thanks to a cavalry of retirees, homemakers and students delivering parcels... View Source

Shower peaks on the night of 12 to 13 August, when in ideal conditions as many as 100 meteors an hour can be seenThe Perseid meteor shower is widely regarded as the best of the year but better than that, it is happening this week.Active from mid-July until the end of August, the shower peaks on the night of 12 to 13 August, when it can be possible to see as many as 100 meteors an hour streaking ac... View Source

Logistics startup Ninja Van is in talks to raise an internal round which will slash its valuation by about half, the latest sign of tech companies struggling to navigate the funding winter plaguing Southeast Asia... View Source

Second-ranked cryptocurrency Ether outpaced rivals over the weekend to lead a broad rally in digital assets, as demand from institutional investors and corporate treasury buyers builds... View Source

Some people described an extremely bright fireball and a loud sound as the object passed overhead in night skyFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastResidents in Central Victoria have reported seeing a large meteor streaking across the night sky on Sunday, with some people describing an extremely bright fireball and a loud s... View Source

Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. agreed to pay 15% of their revenues from chip sales to China to the US government as part of a deal with the Trump administration to secure export licenses, the Financial Times reported Sunday... View Source

It may have been decades since you last heard the crunching screeches of connecting with dial-up Internet, but AOL said it will discontinue its dial-up service on September 30, officially marking the end of an era in Internet history. As first spotted by PC Gamer, AOL made the surprising announcement in a post buried in its AOL Help pages. Along with the dial-up service, AOL Dialer software and AO... View Source

A Siri that does way more than just setting a timer or writing down a reminder may still be nearly a year away. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple plans to release an overhauled version of Siri in the spring, which will be enhanced by the new App Intents feature. Gurman reported that the upgraded Siri will handle more complex tasks within apps, like commenting on an Instagram post, a... View Source

Rod Fergusson, the general manager of the Diablo franchise for the last five years, is leaving Blizzard. Fergusson announced the move on social media, but didn't say where he's going next. Before joining Blizzard in 2020 to lead Diablo, Fergusson was studio head at The Coalition, where he oversaw Gears of War. "After five years driving the Diablo franchise with four big launches, it... View Source

A post on Ubisoft's news page reportedly announced that FX is working on a TV show adaptation of the Far Cry franchise. The page has since been taken down and entering the website redirects to Ubisoft's landing page for company news. However, several Redditors have been circulating what they saw in the press release. According to the alleged Ubisoft post, the Far Cry franchise adaptation... View Source

Both science fiction and real life have some interesting spacecraft names, sometimes borrowing from each other. This quiz will test to see if you know the difference... View Source

Actor who portrayed commander in 1995 Oscar-winning film says Lovell dared to go to places most wouldn’t goLate Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell has received a tribute from Tom Hanks, the actor who brought him to life in an Oscar-winning movie and said he had gone places most wouldn’t dare.“There are people who dare, who dream, and who lead others to places we would not go on our own,” Hanks said of... View Source

Passwords still seem to be the most popular method of ensuring that the right person is using the right app or service, despite the slow adoption of passkeys, which are considered more secure. And because we should be using different ones for each device and/or app, the best way to track all of them is to use a password manager. Some apps and operating systems come with their own password managers... View Source

The rate of human-produced light is increasing in the night sky by as much as 10% per year, making it difficult for astronomers to study the night sky... View Source

Tech companies keep telling everyone that this or that AI feature is going to change everything. But when you press them for examples, real, concrete examples of how those AI tools should be used, the answers tend to be lackluster. Sometimes AI tools feel so open-ended, it's hard to know where to start or what the best way to use them might be Well, here at The Verge, we have to test all these AI... View Source

It's the lack of noise you notice first. There's no clatter of equipment, rumble of engines, or chatter of coworkers. Only the low hum of electronics. For an industrial space, this is eerily quiet, but it makes sense in a building where robots might outnumber people. I'm at a warehouse - or customer fulfilment center (CFC) - operated by online grocery company Ocado in Luton, just outside London. Y... View Source

Twin orbs of superhot plasma at the Milky Way's center known as the "Fermi bubbles" contain inexplicable clouds of cold hydrogen, new research reveals... View Source

American astronaut and commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission who dramatically brought the crew back to EarthJust after 9.20pm, Houston time, on Monday 13 April 1970, Jim Lovell, who has died aged 97, looked out of the left side window of Odyssey, the command module of the Apollo 13 lunar mission. Caught in the sunlight was what looked like smoke, which Lovell believed, correctly, was oxygen... View Source

How it started When I was growing up in the Midwest, everyone I knew drove small cars. My dad had a light pink Volvo 240, my mom drove a Dodge Dart, and my grandmother had a 1988 Honda Accord - which would eventually become my first car. We lived in the suburbs, so almost no one drove a truck, but if they did it was something small like a Ford Ranger or Toyota Hilux. Over time, those small cars we... View Source

Napoleon's campaign against the Russian Empire was one of the most costly wars in history. Many soldiers died of diseases. Some of these illnesses are only now being identified... View Source

Take a little phone break, as a treat. Leaving the house without my phone is the stuff of nightmares. Leaving the house without my phone on purpose? Are you kidding? What if I need to take a picture of something? What will I look at if I need to wait in line? What if disaster strikes or a War of the Worlds happens? The possibilities are too overwhelming. But in the face of all this uncertainty, I... View Source

In the fascinating new reality of the internet, teen girls can't learn about periods on Reddit and indie artists can't sell smutty games on Itch.io, but a military contractor will make you nonconsensual deepfakes of Taylor Swift taking her top off for $30 a month. Early Tuesday, Elon Musk's xAI launched a new image and video generator called Grok Imagine with a "spicy" mode whose output ranges fro... View Source

Apple’s upcoming voice-control feature for the new Siri could be an under-the-radar hit — if it works. Also: Tim Cook placates Trump with minor supply-chain changes (and a bar of gold), and Apple is finishing up work on iOS 26 and Liquid Glass 1.0. Lastly, the iPhone maker loses a fifth AI engineer to Meta... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 93, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, I'm sad the sun is setting sooner, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I'm reading about the rise of GEO, laughing at Kirby's new shapes, acknowledging Google's good dunk on Apple, thinking of the best Wordle puzzle I can ma... View Source

A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a decades-old conjecture... View Source

Spot Saturn near the moon on Aug. 11! See them with the naked eye and learn what to expect through a telescope... View Source

The 2025 full 'Sturgeon Moon' graced the night sky on Aug. 9... View Source

Pacific Equity Partners is in advanced talks to acquire a majority stake in Spark New Zealand Ltd.’s data center business in a deal that would value the assets at more than NZ$600 million ($357 million), the Australian Financial Review reported... View Source

Aviation Week Joe Anselmo (Aviation Week’s editorial director), Garrett Reim (lead reporter), Irene Klotz (senior space editor), and Matthew Fulco (business editor) explores SpaceX’s Starlink broadband service as a juggernaut that has disrupted the space industry and geopolitics. Starlink has deployed over 9,000 satellites, serves 6 million users in 140 countries. It generates $15.5 bi... View Source

REGENT Craft, the developer and manufacturer of Seaglider vessels and a trusted partner of the U.S. Marine Corps, will be making seagliders for the US marines. REGENT has a $10 billion commercial backlog. They will make REGENT Defense Seaglider vessels at its headquarters in Rhode Island. REGENT’s proprietary hydrofoiling wing-in-ground-effect(WIG) Seaglider design offers an unmatched ... Read mor... View Source

All-electric seaglider manufacturer Regent Craft will deliver its first 50-100-passenger Monarch seaglider to United Marine Egypt (UME) Shipping before the end of the decade. The vessel is an all-electric hydrofoiling wing-in-ground (WIG) craft, which means it always operates in ground effect, an operation that occurs within one wingspan of the surface of the water and ... Read more... View Source

Thorcon International, an innovative nuclear technology developer based in Singapore, has received official approval for the Kelasa site evaluation plan (PET) and the site evaluation management system plan (SMET) from nuclear regulator, BAPETEN. It is the first-ever nuclear power plant-related licensing approval from the Indonesian government, and it marks the completion of the first step ... Read... View Source

It's been a few years since we last heard anything about the Space Invaders movie that is reportedly in the works, but a new report suggests things are inching forward again. According to Deadline, Ben Zazove and Evan Turner (The Out-Laws) are now on board to write the movie for Warner Bros.' New Line Cinema. A movie adaptation of Taito's classic arcade game has been brewing for ove... View Source

Northrop Grumman has a new rendering of the U.S. Navy’s F/A-XX next-generation carrier-based fighter. The F/A-XX was struggling for funding and development has been delayed. The Senate Appropriations Committee advanced a draft defense spending bill that would reverse the Pentagon’s plan to freeze the F/A-XX program. The large bubble canopy show it is single pilot ... Read more... View Source

Richard Mansell, CEO of IVO Ltd, has announced that the Quantum Drive testing has started its initial calibration and assessment phase. All is good so far and they are excited to see the results of the upcoming tests. He said – No timeline will be made public and they will not be issuing intermediate findings. ... Read more... View Source

DJI's obstacle avoidance system could be just as useful on land as it is in the air. DJI, known for its dominance in the drone market, has entered the smart home world with a range of robot vacuums called ROMO. Beyond its drones, gimbals and action cameras, the Chinese company previously branched out into other product categories, including portable power stations and e-bikes. For those wonde... View Source

The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft is seen as it lands with NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov aboard in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025.Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber The first crew to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Cali... View Source

Following the rollout of OpenAI's latest GPT-5 model earlier this week, a certain user base was adamantly calling for the return of the previous GPT-4o model. Outspoken users complained about the writing quality of the updated model, with some even going so far as to grieve the loss of GPT-4o, which some said they considered a friend and confidant. In the latest OpenAI update that labels GPT-... View Source

A new executive order repeals a 52-year-old ban on commercial supersonic flights, while new technology can make supersonic flight quieter than ever before... View Source

Creating seating arrangements can be pretty stressful; the empath part of me strives to find the perfect seat for every person even if it's a nearly impossible task. If it's for a big, meaningful event, I get even more anxious. When you find the right place for everyone, though, it's even more satisfying than a great jigsaw puzzle. Chasing that feeling is what Is This Seat Taken? is all about - an... View Source

This EcoFlow portable power station was a huge help in making sure my family didn’t breakdown during sweltering temps in the Tennessee mountains. | Photo: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge I recently returned from a family camping trip to Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. I live in South Carolina, so in mid-July, a trip to the mountains is usually an excellent way to seek o... View Source

Kennedy asserts that wearables will help Americans “take control” of their health. It’s not that simple. I keep hearing the same sentence repeating in my head. "My vision is that every American is wearing a wearable within four years." RFK Jr., our current secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, said this at a congressional hearing at the end of June. Wearables, he said, are key... View Source

The astronauts part of SpaceX's Crew-10 mission are on their way back home. Their Dragon capsule called Endurance is scheduled to splash down at approximately 11:33 AM Eastern time off the coast of California. Endurance undocked from the International Space Station at 6:15PM Eastern on August 8 with NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astr... View Source

Returning to work or school from summer vacation is never easy, but the Aura Aspen could help you hold onto your favorite memories by putting them front and center. And right now, you can pick up the digital photo frame for around $199 ($30 off) from Amazon, Best Buy, and Aura, which is a new low price.  Aura Aspen The Aura Aspen digital frame lets you upload photos via the companion app, clo... View Source

Artificial intelligence’s imprint on US financial markets is unmistakable. Nvidia Corp. is the most valuable company in the world at nearly $4.5 trillion. Startups from OpenAI to Anthropic have raised tens of billions of dollars... View Source

In a Q&A interview, author and science writer David Baron discusses the turn-of-the-century Mars craze, which he covers in his new book, "The Martians."... View Source

Now that we're about halfway into the first year of President Donald Trump's second term, we can take stock of his administration's destruction of online environmental resources. It's worse than last time. It's also, seemingly, just the beginning - paving the way forward for the president's polluting agenda. A watchdog group that monitors publicly-available environmental data has recorded 70 perce... View Source

Welcome to our latest recap of what's going on in the indie game space. This week, Nintendo held its latest Indie World showcase to spotlight titles that are coming to Switch and Switch 2, as well as some that arrived on the eShop on the day of the presentation. One of the latter was UFO 50, which featured on many best of 2024 lists after it debuted on PC. Another was Is This Seat Taken?, whi... View Source

In the aftermath of itch.io pulling the sale of over 20,000 pages of adult content, the creators of that work are left feeling betrayed, exhausted, and fearful. The number of platforms that permit the sale of adult material is shrinking, and there's no guarantee the ones that remain will still permit it in the future. But now, with their livelihoods at stake, many creators and their communities ha... View Source

WindBorne Systems is one of several companies launching balloons, drones, buoys, and other devices to provide critical data to the beleaguered agency’s National Weather Service, but they can’t fill all the gaps... View Source

A four-legged robot tested under simulated Martian gravity jumps from wall to wall, demonstrating how future missions could navigate terrain too challenging for today's rovers... View Source

Artificial intelligence technology to get humanoid robots into the mainstream remains a key challenge for the sector, according to the founder of one of China’s prominent robot developers... View Source

SpaceX's Crew-10 astronauts will return to Earth today (Aug. 9) after living on the International Space Station for nearly five months, and you can watch the action live... View Source

South Korean AI chip designer DeepX Co. has hired Morgan Stanley to assist with a round of capital-raising ahead of a potential initial public offering in 2027... View Source

The four members on SpaceX's Crew-10 mission are Earth-bound after bidding farewell to their Expedition 73 crewmates and departing the International Space Station... View Source

C3.ai Inc. released preliminary first-quarter revenue that fell far short of analysts’ estimates and restructured its sales management team. The shares fell about 10% in extended trading... View Source

Even as stablecoins enter a period of peak expectations, veterans in wider fintech circles see limitations to the tokens as an emerging payments tool... View Source

For most of the past decade, forecasters have been able to use satellites to track these smoke plumes, but the view was only two-dimensional... View Source

Venture firm Andreessen Horowitz has agreed to lead a $200 million investment in Periodic Labs, a new startup building artificial intelligence for material science, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Tesla obtained a rideshare license from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation on August 7, 2025, is a significant step toward operating its Robotaxi service statewide. This Transportation Network Company (TNC) license aligns with Senate Bill 2807 (SB 2807). This new law signed by Governor Greg Abbott in June 2025 that takes effect on ... Read more... View Source

The highlights of the Anthropic Claude Coding Best practices: 1. Tailor Your Environment Use CLAUDE.md files: Placed in your repo (root, parent, child, or home directory), this auto-included file allows you to document project-specific instructions—bash commands, style guidelines, setup tips, common caveats, etc. Keep it concise and iterate it over time. Tune permissions: Claude Code ... Read more... View Source

Astronomers spot a rare stellar bridge in Abell 3667, revealing an aggressive galaxy merger and new clues about dark matter... View Source

For months, OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman has been hyping up the capabilities of GPT-5, setting up the launch as a seminal moment for the company. But in the first 24 hours after its release, the new model was met with mixed reviews... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde speaks with OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap about the company’s latest model, GPT-5, and the battle to retain top talent in the artificial intelligence space. Plus, SoftBank and Meta each make moves to expand their AI data center resources. And the CEOs of Twilio, Chime, and Akamai each discuss their companies’ latest earnings reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Nintendo has eyed adding a Playdate-style crank to the Switch 2, according to a recently spotted patent from Nintendo Patents Watch. The hypothetical accessory would add tracking rotational movement to an existing bag of Joy-Con 2 controller tricks that includes motion and mouse controls.   Based on the patent application, the crank accessory attaches to the side of a Joy-Con 2 magnetica... View Source

Credit: NASA NASA has chosen a group of contractors to supply multiple agency facilities with liquid and gaseous helium for at least the next two years. The NASA Agency-wide Supply of Liquid and Gaseous Helium contract is a fixed-price indefinite-delivery requirements contract with firm-fixed-price delivery orders. The awards have a total estimated value of approximately $105.1 million. The perfor... View Source

This quiz tests your knowledge of the astronauts who have stepped foot on the moon... View Source

Volonaut Airbike lands precisely on the spot with computer aided stabilization. The future is arriving. Thanks to advanced computer aided stabilization the Volonaut Airbike lands precisely on the spot. For more details visit https://t.co/XbqDfW9AUz pic.twitter.com/4Aqs3HNDxX — Volonaut (@Volonaut) August 8, 2025... View Source

Today this material can seal pipes and brave the ocean. But someday it could be used in surgery or underwater repairs... View Source

NASA astronaut Jim Lovell — a veteran of four spaceflights, including Apollo 8 and the near-disastrous Apollo 13 —passed away on Aug. 7, 2025 at the age of 97... View Source

Figma Inc. has taken investors who pounced on the year’s hottest initial public offering for a wild ride, shedding $21 billion from a peak in the days following its record-breaking IPO... View Source

Paramount’s hit sci-fi horror franchise returns in 2027 with more ultrasonic alien invaders... View Source

With the rise of AI writing tools, Wikipedia editors have had to deal with an onslaught of AI-generated content filled with false information and phony citations. Already, the community of Wikipedia volunteers has mobilized to fight back against AI slop, something Wikimedia Foundation product director Marshall Miller likens to a sort of "immune system" response. "They are vigilant to make sure tha... View Source

The heavy hitters of private credit have been waiting for this moment for years... View Source

The dream of Chromebooks that double as gaming laptops appears to be on its last legs. 9to5Google reports that Google is ending support for Steam for Chromebooks starting January 1, 2026. Porting the application launcher was part of an extended push from the company to make Chromebooks a place to play games. Companies like ASUS and Acer announced and released gaming Chromebooks, but the idea never... View Source

Nasa hails Lovell for saving 1970 moon mission from ‘potential tragedy’ and safely returning crew to EarthJames “Jim” Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97.Lovell died on Thursday in Lake Forest, Illinois, Nasa said in a statement. Continue reading... View Source

OpenAI is bringing back GPT-4o in ChatGPT just one day after replacing it with GPT-5. In a post on X, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that the company will let paid users switch to GPT-4o after ChatGPT users mourned its replacement. “We will let Plus users choose to continue to use 4o,” Altman says. “We will watch usage as we think about how long to offer legacy models for.” For months, ChatGPT fa... View Source

James Lovell, the pioneering US astronaut whose two dramatic missions to the moon included Apollo 13, the nearly disastrous trip that captivated the world and decades later inspired a triumphant Hollywood blockbuster, has died. He was 97... View Source

Portrait of NASA astronaut Jim LovellCredit: NASA The following is a statement from acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy on the passing of famed Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell. He passed away Aug. 7, in Lake Forest, Illinois. He was 97 years old. “NASA sends its condolences to the family of Capt. Jim Lovell, whose life and work inspired millions of people across the decades. Jim’s character and... View Source

The techniques used to target the asteroids could also be employed in tracking hazardous asteroids and interstellar objects... View Source

I kid you not, we wrote these words in 2014: Microsoft has tried to dumb down its Control Panel with a simple UI over the years, rather than a list of options, but there’s still a number of settings that don’t exist in the new PC Settings app. “Why do I have to go the PC settings to forget a network and Control panel to change IP settings? Can’t this all be done from a single place?... View Source

It feels like Summer Game Fest is only just in our rear view mirror and yet there's another video game extravaganza on the horizon. Gamescom is the planet's largest gaming event and we're sure to find out about a bunch of interesting new games at the Opening Night Live showcase. Xbox is broadcasting from the show floor across two days, and there will be other presentations that are... View Source

Technicians at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida conduct illumination testing on Friday, July 18, 2025, by flashing a bright light that simulates the Sun into the two-panel solar array that will help power the agency’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) observatory on its upcoming journey to a destination about one million miles awa... View Source

Satellite images revealed the scope of destruction in the south of France where an area larger than the country's capital Paris has been turned into ashes by a massive wildfire... View Source

The Android ecosystem is all about choice. While iPhone owners have a smaller pool of new devices to pick from when it’s time to upgrade, there’s a wider range of choices on Android. Some Android phones even fold in half! Imagine. On the flip side, all that choice can make for some hard decisions. Here’s where I’d like to help; I’ve tested a whole boatload of recent Android phones, and I think the... View Source

For a lot of people, the iPad Air is Apple’s goldilocks tablet. It’s more powerful and available in a larger size than the entry-level iPad, but a lot less expensive than the iPad Pro, which can be overkill for some. Right now, Apple’s 2025 iPad Air M3 can be picked up for $150 off at Amazon. This deal applies to each configuration of the 11-inch and 13-inch versions of the most recent iPad Air. S... View Source

A newfound supermassive black hole from the dawn of the universe challenges how early cosmic giants formed... View Source

On Thursday, Bloomberg reported that Tesla CEO Elon Musk has ordered its Dojo supercomputer project to be disbanded after the project's leader and most of its employees left to join another AI project. The news marked a major setback to the automaker's efforts to develop its own in-house developed supercomputer to train AI models for self-driving cars. And it signaled yet another blow to Tesla's o... View Source

A recent breach of Columbia University’s computer systems compromised personal information of about 870,000 people, including students and applicants, according to the school’s reports to state officials in the US... View Source

Nintendo just announced a forthcoming app called Hello Mario! that's headed to iOS, Android and the Switch in Japan. The free app seems pretty basic, as it's just a giant Mario head that users can poke and prod. That sounds eerily reminiscent of the intro screen of Super Mario 64. The company says that Mario will react in various ways based on player input. His face will even turn "... View Source

The Pro 3 is also shipping in Famicom and GameCube-inspired color schemes. | Photo: Cameron Faulkner / The Verge As far as I'm concerned, 8BitDo's Pro 3 is the ultimate controller. You may already know that it makes a model literally called the Ultimate controller, but it plays second fiddle to the new Pro 3 in some key ways. It's highly customizable, allowing you to change the face buttons, joyst... View Source

Frost Giant Studios set out to make a successor to StarCraft II, but the road has been difficult so far... View Source

No product launch excites me more than the release of a new Tamagotchi. So when it comes time to review one, I like to first give myself a little while to just live with the device — to feel that initial delight and let it die down before I try to look at it critically. That way, I can more fairly assess whether we've actually got a toy that's worth the price tag and will hold a person's attention... View Source

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured a breathtaking panorama of the Red Planet surface depicted in false-color under a blue sky... View Source

Even with the ability to take excellent photos with our phones and instantly share them across the world, there’s something magical about the old-school instant camera. With just a click of a button, you can capture a moment in a photo that you can see and touch almost immediately. Images captured by an instant camera aren’t as pristine or perfect as those produced by modern digital cameras, but t... View Source

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Believe it or not, Big Tech's fall hardware events are already upon us. (Heck, Samsung already got a jump on things in July.) Up next: Google's big Pixel shindig. You can learn all about the new Pixel 10 lineup, along with new watches and earbuds, on August 20. Google's new hardware has leaked far and wide. But that doesn't mean there couldn't be a few surprises. If you wa... View Source

Science: NASA, ESA, CXC, Yi-Chi Chang (National Tsing Hua University); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory teamed up to identify a new possible example of a rare class of black holes, identified by X-ray emission (in purple) in this image released on July 24, 2025. Called NGC 6099 HLX-1, this bright X-ray source seems to re... View Source

There are various Youtubers on AI who are giving their opinions of OpenAI GPT5. Theo is crowning GPT5 as the best model but others feel it is a good and fast model but are not blown away by it. There were a variety of tests that Grok 4 did well like simulating smoke or finding ... Read more... View Source

Want a new laptop with a side of Billy bookcase? Ikea and Best Buy’s new collaboration has you covered. | Image: Ikea Ikea has announced that it’s opening mini retail experiences in a handful of Best Buy stores in the southern US later this year. It’s the first time Ikea’s products and services will be available through another US retailer, saving shoppers from having to visit and navigate the cha... View Source

Q: I'm hearing that Microsoft is pulling the plug on Windows 10 later this year. What does that mean for my current Windows 10 PC, and what are my options? A: Microsoft will officially end support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, a little over 10 years after the operating system was released. While you can continue to use Windows 10 PCs after that date — and it's understandable why, I... View Source

SpaceX had its first Starship to be static fired on the orbital launch mount. This was modified by engineers and technicians at Starbase after a Starship exploded and destroyed a test stand. SpaceX is about a week from the next Starship orbital test. This was the first Starship to be static fired on the orbital ... Read more... View Source

Ahead of Alien: Earth's two-episode premiere, we talked to series creator Noah Hawley and executive producer David W. Zucker... View Source

It’s only been a couple of days since the Instagram Map launched, and from the looks of our social feeds, people are not happy about it. Responses have ranged from being mildly annoyed that Instagram is ripping off Snapchat’s Snap Maps instead of offering a default feed that only contains your friends’ posts, to high alert outrage about possibly privacy implications and doxing, as well as how dome... View Source

As first reported by Bloomberg, Tesla is disbanding the team behind Dojo, its in-house AI-training supercomputer, and reassigning remaining staff to other projects within the company. This marks a shift in the company's compute sourcing strategy for its AI-focused initiatives such as autonomous driving and the Optimus robot. Head of Dojo Peter Bannon is leaving Tesla, which is the latest depa... View Source

It’s a disappointing star projector, but the Discovery Space Projector has some nice scientific images of moons and planets... View Source

OpenAI just announced its GPT-5 AI model on Thursday, but you won’t be able to use it with Apple Intelligence’s ChatGPT integration until iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe 26, Apple confirmed to 9to5Mac. Apple Intelligence can rely on ChatGPT for things like helping answer certain Siri queries or alongside Apple’s Google Lens-like Visual Intelligence feature, but right now, it uses OpenAI’s GPT-4... View Source

Usually when a stock soars more than 7,000% in less than two years, investors have some idea why. Then there’s the curious case of Sezzle Inc... View Source

The Google Finance web app is getting a major overhaul with an emphasis on AI. This redesign includes an AI-powered chatbot, which will answer finance-based queries and provide relevant links. Here's hoping the chatbot will keep hallucinations to a minimum, given that people use the app to make financial decisions with real world consequences. The platform is also introducing new charting too... View Source

While moonlight might steal the spotlight, it won't steal the Perseids' show... View Source

A three-pack of TP-Link’s BE25 Wi-Fi 7 routers is $90 off at Amazon. Having a solid set of Wi-Fi routers is essential, whether you’re working from home, playing online games , or streaming a movie. I’ve used this three-pack of TP-Link’s Deco BE26 Wi-Fi 7 Mesh Routers for months without any issues, and I’m eager to recommend them, especially since it’s currently on sale for $188.89 ($90 off)... View Source

OpenAI finally released its long-awaited GPT-5 model this week, unsurprisingly proclaiming it its best yet with regards to coding, accuracy, safety and more. CEO Sam Altman even compared the jump up in quality to when the iPhone first adopted a Retina display in a press briefing ahead of the announcement. Big talk indeed. Given ChatGPT’s integration with Apple Intelligence, you might be wondering... View Source

The LaView Galaxy Star Projector posits itself as a premium option, but doesn’t quite live up to the competition... View Source

Hello, Mario! lets kids interact with Mario’s smiling face. | Screenshot: X Nintendo has announced a new free mobile app coming to iOS, Android and the Switch. It’s called Hello, Mario! and was revealed alongside a new collection of Mario-themed products designed for kids and toddlers launching in Japan later this month. All of Nintendo’s mobile apps have been free to download so far, but while so... View Source

Trade Desk Inc. analysts are bailing on the one-time market favorite amid growing fears that its advertising technology will get steamrolled by Amazon.com Inc.’s offerings... View Source

We’re into the back half of summer already (which may be good or bad news depending on how hot it is where you reside), and it won’t be too long before the weather outside becomes decidedly more frightful. When that happens, a smart thermostat becomes an especially wise addition to your home. They help to optimize the temperature to ensure you stay comfortable, while also keeping your energy bills... View Source

New Hubble Telescope imagery of the interstellar interloper comet 3I/ATLAS reveals a dusty coma and the beginning of a tail... View Source

Google’s apparent quest to bring AI features across all of its apps has just extended to one of its most mundane: Google Finance. The company announced on Friday that it’s testing a “new, AI-powered Google Finance,” chatbot included. The revamp, which will roll out in the US in the coming weeks, will let you ask finance-related questions of the web app’s built-in chatbot, which will serve up an AI... View Source

A Turkish court ordered the removal of all content from the popular YouTube channel of veteran journalist Fatih Altayli, following his arrest on charges of threatening President Recep Tayyip Erdogan... View Source

Gemini has been acting strangely for some users over the past few weeks. There are multiple reports online of users getting responses from Gemini that are oddly self-flagellating. A screenshot from an X user back in June showed Gemini saying "...I am a fool. I have made so many mistakes that I can no longer be trusted." The AI chatbot then deleted all the files with codes it created. Now... View Source

Scientists have spotted a mysterious mineral on Mars that may be new to science — and could help reveal some Red Planet mysteries... View Source

Why just stare at a painting when you can cosplay it? | Image: Casetify Released as part of a new collection of smartphone, tablet, and earbud cases celebrating the Mauritshuis museum collection in The Hague, Netherlands, Casetify’s new AirPods Max accessory can turn you into a 360-year-old work of art. Made from a “silk-like textile,” according to Designboom, the headphone cover’s fabric has been... View Source

Emirates will ban the use of power banks aboard its flights and only allow passengers to bring one such device onto the plane, further restricting travelers from carrying electronic gadgets on aircraft... View Source

The Fitbit Charge 6 fitness tracker is $50 off right now via Wellbots, bringing the price down to just $110. All you have to do is enter the code ENGADFIT50 at checkout. This little device actually topped our list of the best fitness trackers, so now is a good time to pick one up. The battery life is fantastic, lasting around seven days on a charge, and it features built-in GPS. The heart rate mon... View Source

Symbion Power LLC is proposing a 140-megawatt power plant and transmission lines along the border of Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda if the two countries can implement a recent US-backed peace agreement... View Source

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has responded after Donald Trump accused him of being "highly conflicted" and said he should resign, according to The Financial Times. "There has been a lot of misinformation circulating about my past roles," Tan said in a letter to Intel staff. "I wanted to be absolutely clear... I have always operated within the highest legal and ethical standards... View Source

A survey of more than 1,000 physicists finds deep disagreements in what quantum theories mean in the real world... View Source

Long-unloved nuclear and geothermal are experiencing a boom in interest as data center developers seek carbon-free resources capable of delivering round-the-clock electricity to power artificial intelligence... View Source

Most microSD cards are fast enough for boosting storage space and making simple file transfers, but some provide a little more value than others. If you’ve got a device that still accepts microSD cards — whether it’s an older gaming handheld, the new Nintendo Switch 2, an action camera, a drone or an Android tablet — we’ve scoured the market and put close to 20 top contenders through a number of b... View Source

Bizarre phenomena called light echoes create strange, shifting shapes seen in some telescopic images, and help astronomers chart the heavens above... View Source

The MetOp-SG-A1 weather satellite is loaded onto the Ariane 6 launch adapter as part of a mission for the European Space Agency... View Source

At a rooftop bar on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, roughly 150 quant researchers met with employees at the artificial-intelligence startup Anthropic who implored them to consider a life away from Wall Street... View Source

This week, Apple committed another $100 billion towards US investments in a bid to avoid the Trump administration’s chaotic tariff plans. Oh, and Tim Cook gave Trump a unique plaque with a 24-karat gold base. Just a normal business meeting in a normal country. In this episode, Devindra and Engadget's Sam Rutherford discuss what this latest Apple investment ultimately means (and just how embar... View Source

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The first analysis of mushroom bitterness reveals ultrapotent compounds... View Source

Welcome to Edition 8.06 of the Rocket Report! After years of disappointing results from SPACs and space companies, it is a good sign to see Firefly's more traditional initial public offering doing so well. The company has had such a long and challenging road over more than a decade; the prospect of their success should be heartening to the commercial space industry. As always, we welcome reader su... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Natalie Lung reports on Uber’s strategy to invest in the future of robotaxis... View Source

Meta previewed some of its latest virtual reality prototypes this week and plans to demo them at next week’s SIGGRAPH conference. The aim, according to Meta’s blog post, is to offer VR experiences “indistinguishable from the physical world” — something it says no present-day VR system has yet done. It wants to surpass what it terms the visual Turing test. “Our mission for this project was to provi... View Source

Is that a back penis? While Microsoft was busy updating Copilot yesterday with OpenAI's new GPT-5 model, it also quietly launched Copilot 3D. It's a free-to-use feature that can transform a regular 2D image into a 3D model that can then be used in game creation, animation, 3D printing, VR / AR, and much more. Copilot 3D just needs a good clean 2D image, and you don't even need to use any text prom... View Source

Intel Corp. investors can’t catch a break... View Source

Representative Eric Sorensen of Illinois shares how his meteorology roots drive his fight to protect climate science and push back against political interference... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. is the buyer taking ownership of Foxconn Technology Group’s electric vehicle plant in Ohio, a move aimed at kick-starting the Japanese company’s $500 billion Stargate data center project with OpenAI and Oracle Corp... View Source

The full moon rises on Aug. 9; here are the best times to view the Sturgeon Moon... View Source

This year’s Xperia 1 VII has been plagued by problems. CFO Lin Tao mentioned Sony’s beleaguered phone brand at the company’s recent financial results presentation, calling it “a very important business for us,” according to CNET Japan. You could have fooled me. Sony’s last two Xperia 1 flagships have skipped the US market entirely, and it appears to be pulling back in Europe too. It do... View Source

Tesla Inc. is disbanding its Dojo team, upending the automaker’s effort to build an in-house supercomputer for developing driverless-vehicle technology. The team has lost about 20 workers recently to newly formed DensityAI, and remaining Dojo workers are being reassigned to other data center and compute projects within Tesla. Craig Trudell reports on Bloomberg Television... View Source

Taiwan’s trade surplus with the US exceeded its full-year record in just seven months, as a global boom in artificial intelligence fuels demand for its tech products... View Source

European technology stocks are woefully underperforming their US peers over the past six months, and their much weaker earnings momentum is to blame... View Source

Japan doesn’t want Apple to give it the EU treatment. We might finally see the first iPhone browsers built on top of third-party engines now that Japanese regulators have taken up the issue.  Apple’s malicious compliance in the EU has so far prevented Chrome, and its Blink engine, for example, from coming to iOS, but recently published guidelines related to Japan’s Smartphone Act could change... View Source

If you’ve held on to an aging Windows laptop for too long, it’s now a great time to upgrade. With all the hype around AI PCs, computer makers are rushing to release new designs featuring efficient new chips from Intel and AMD. And thanks to Microsoft’s Copilot+ initiative, which launched last year, we’re finally seeing decent notebooks powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips, which are leading to b... View Source

Intel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Lip-Bu Tan said he’s got the full backing of the company’s board, responding for the first time to US President Donald Trump’s call for his resignation over conflicts of interest... View Source

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported a 26% growth spurt in July, adding to evidence of accelerating spending on artificial intelligence... View Source

The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday approved new rules to accelerate the deployment and security of subsea data cables, citing growing threats from China and other foreign adversaries... View Source

OpenAI and Anthropic are competing to have the top AI model for coders. But first…... View Source

The day before the launch of GPT-5, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman surprised employees with a message in the company's Slack. "As we mentioned a few weeks ago, we have been looking at comp for our technical teams given the movement in the market," wrote Altman, according to a copy of the message that was shared with me. He announced that OpenAI would give a "special one-time award" to researchers and softw... View Source

For more than three decades, Lip-Bu Tan invested in the Chinese economic boom, placing the kinds of no-brainer bets that enriched venture capitalists and fund managers around the world and across the US... View Source

Instacart posted its strongest order growth since 2022 for a second straight quarter and beat earnings estimates for the current period, a sign of resilience in its core delivery business after it rolled out initiatives to cater to price-conscious consumers... View Source

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said a total ban on online gambling platforms will lead to a proliferation of illicit operations which will be more difficult to eradicate... View Source

Chinese tech giants Tencent Holdings Ltd., and JD.com Inc. remain more exposed to US tariffs than global peers, with sector earnings expectations having weakened since President Donald Trump’s April tariff announcements... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. has selected Pacific Investment Management Co. and Blue Owl Capital Inc. to lead a $29 billion financing for its data center expansion in rural Louisiana as the artificial intelligence race heats up, according to people with knowledge of the matter... View Source

The rush to convert listed companies into vehicles for buying cryptocurrencies has reached such a fever pitch that even executives backing such deals are warning of potential fallout for digital-asset prices... View Source

Bloomberg is reporting that the Tesla Dojo chip project is being disbanded. The lead Peter Bannon and 20 others are going into another company Density AI. The team recently lost about 20 workers to newly formed DensityAI, and the remaining Dojo workers are being reassigned to other data center and compute projects within Tesla according ... Read more... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde discusses President Donald Trump’s call for Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to resign. Plus the White House considers 100% tariffs on semiconductors, with a carveout for companies that move production back to the US including Apple. And the CEOs of Lyft, DraftKings and Duolingo all join to discuss their companies’ quarterly earnings. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

ASX Ltd. is grappling with rising regulatory pressure and intensifying competition, as shares of Australia’s main exchange operator trail most of its global peers... View Source

Walt Disney Co. settled a lawsuit brought by actress Gina Carano, who sued for wrongful termination after she was let go from the cast of the TV show The Mandalorian following comments that were deemed offensive... View Source

Nextdoor Holdings Inc., the neighborhood social networking company, is eliminating 12% of its workforce, part of a broader effort by Chief Executive Officer Nirav Tolia to achieve profitability and revamp the business after years of struggles... View Source

Chime Financial Inc. posted earnings that topped Wall Street analyst estimates in the financial-technology company’s first quarterly results as a public company... View Source

Meta previewed some of its latest virtual reality prototypes this week, with concepts that are compelling on the specs and long on the design. Literally. The company shared some details on its Tiramisu project, dubbing it "hyperrealistic VR." This set promises three times the contrast, 14 times the maximum brightness and 3.6 times the angular resolution of the Meta Quest 3. In actual sta... View Source

Pinterest Inc. reported second-quarter sales that beat analysts’ expectations, but earnings for the second quarter were less than Wall Street expected and user growth in the US and Canada, the company’s most lucrative market, was flat. The stock dropped by as much as 14% in after-hours trading... View Source

Scientists have tapped into gravitational lensing and stellar dynamics to confirm the existence of a black hole with 36 billion solar masses... View Source

The Browser Company — the makers of the Arc browser — just launched a $20 per month subscription to its new AI-powered web browser, Dia, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The new Dia Pro subscription comes with unlimited access to the browser’s chat feature, which lets you ask questions about the content in your tabs. People who use Dia for free will still have access to the same features the bro... View Source

Jack Dorsey’s Block Inc. raised its full-year profit guidance after second-quarter earnings came in well ahead of Wall Street expectations, fueled by strength in its Cash App lending business and resilient payment volumes... View Source

The Federal Communications Commission is planning a review of the US emergency alert systems. Both the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WAS) will be subject to a "re-examination" by the agency. "We want to ensure that these programs deliver the results that Americans want and need," FCC Chairman Brendan Carr posted on X. The announcement of this p... View Source

Something’s off with that chart on the left. During its big GPT-5 livestream on Thursday, OpenAI showed off a few charts that made the model seem quite impressive — but if you look closely, some graphs were a little bit off. In one, ironically showing how well GPT-5 does in “deception evals across models,” the scale is all over the place. For “coding deception,” for example, GPT-5 apparently gets... View Source

Tesla Inc. is disbanding its Dojo supercomputer team and its leader will depart the company, according to people familiar with the matter, upending the automaker’s effort to develop in-house chips for driverless technology... View Source

A bold new proposal envisions launching laser-propelled nanocraft to a nearby black hole to test Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity... View Source

It’s official: Skydance Media’s deal to purchase CBS parent company Paramount Global for $8 billion is complete, and incoming chairman / CEO David Ellison’s first order of business is a massive restructuring. In an open letter about his plans for Paramount, a Skydance Corporation (the merged companies’ new name), Ellison announced that, going forward, the business will be s... View Source

The venture capital firm Accel is leading a funding round for the German artificial intelligence startup n8n that would exponentially raise the valuation of the company to $2.3 billion, people familiar with the situation said... View Source

Nightdive Studios and id Software have announced a surprise remaster of fantasy shooters Heretic and Hexen. The games are now available for modern consoles in a new release, dubbed Heretic + Hexen, that includes support for co-op, cross-platform multiplayer and community-published mods. Heretic + Hexen combines Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders, Hexen: Beyond Heretic and Hexen: Deathkings of t... View Source

Tesla plans to split Dojo 3 chip production, with Samsung handling front-end manufacturing and Intel taking on specialized packaging. This is a move away from TSMC’s full-process control. Samsung’s foundry to produce D3 chips will use the 2nm process for Tesla’s AI6 and Dojo 3. Intel will use leverage EMIB 2.5D packaging for Dojo’s large-scale ... Read more... View Source

During today's Nintendo Indie World showcase, I had two epiphanies. The first was the realization that friendslop games are about to hit the Switch 2 like a falling piano in a Road Runner cartoon. The second was that I love that for me, because that means I can finally play them. My friends love "friendslop," the initially derisive but now descriptive nickname given to indie co-op games with a loo... View Source

Flutter Entertainment Plc, parent of the FanDuel online betting business, raised its outlook for 2025 after US sports bets in the second quarter went the company’s way and it was able to offset tax charges... View Source

OpenAI GPT5 completed an physic correct airflow simulation program in 2 minutes using 300-400 lines of code... View Source

China conducted takeoff and touchdown tests with its "Lanyue" moon lander on Aug. 6, 2025, as it prepares to launch a crewed lunar mission by 2030... View Source

You can save $150 on various iPad Air configurations. Laptops are great, but sometimes it’s simply just more convenient to use a tablet like the iPad Air. The Air’s easier to carry, after all, and still powerful enough to handle everything from streaming to taking notes and reading. And right now, the latest version of the Air is down to a new low price. The M3-powered 11-inch iPad Air with 128GB... View Source

San Francisco-based fintech company Brex Inc. has secured a payment institution license in the European Union, a stamp of approval that clears the way for a full-scale European rollout... View Source

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Here are some first looks at OpenAI GPT5 coding capabilities. This is the best coding model that OpenAI has released so far. GPT-5 is a next level model. It can solve virtual rubik cubes and create professional images, simulations and websites... View Source

GPT-5 has finally arrived. Along with the announcement of the highly anticipated AI model, OpenAI also previewed several updates coming to ChatGPT, ranging from visual changes to improvements to the chatbot’s performance. Here’s a rundown of all of the changes you can expect to see in ChatGPT. Say goodbye to the model picker With the rollout of GPT-5, OpenAI is getting rid of the model picker and... View Source

A buy-now, pay-later app that’s become a go-to in Venezuela for purchasing everything from clothing to tires is breathing life into the country’s moribund stock exchange as it seeks to ease the financing load of its merchant partners... View Source

Grok's responses to users on X could include paid advertisements in the future. According to the Financial Times, X owner Elon Musk told advertisers in a live discussion that his company would let marketers pay to appear in suggestions from Grok. He said that after making Grok the "smartest, most accurate AI in the world," the company is now focusing on paying "for those expens... View Source

Mr WhosetheBoss tested ChatGPT-5 and compared it to ChatGPT 4o and other older models. GPT5 is much better and it will become your default model for all free and paid OpenAI services. GPT5 will have better writing flair. GPT5 is not a step up in image generation. It is not better at every single thing ... Read more... View Source

No, it's probably not the de-specialized edition, but Disney could surprise the 'Star Wars' faithful when the rerelease drops in theaters in 2027... View Source