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"Strange New Worlds"' fourth season has doubled down on the show's long-established penchant for seeking out new genres beyond "Trek"'s traditional frontiers. So far the Enterprise has encountered Martians, hangovers and Muppets, and now its latest mission, "Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass", has made a detour into full-on soap opera territory. Thanks to the meddling of Q junior Trelane (Rhys... View Source

Microsoft says it will let anyone access Xbox Cloud Gaming in November, without the need to subscribe to Xbox Game Pass. The change to a pay-as-you-go model is part of some sweeping changes to Xbox Cloud Gaming today, and is designed for people who don't use cloud access enough to warrant a monthly subscription. "Players will be able to purchase cloud playtime hours through the Xbox Store and stre... View Source

The animation industry is facing an existential threat in the form of generative AI. Entertainment execs remain adamant that the tech is the answer, allowing fewer workers to accomplish more in less time — a thinly-veiled attempt, critics charge, to pinch pennies and churn out lower quality content. Marketing teams are also frequently caving to the irresistible draw of text-to-video generators, a... View Source

Snowflake shares jumped by the most in three months after the company raised its outlook for annual sales and touted rapid adoption of its AI-assisted coding tool. Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Tech Analyst Matt Bloxham discusses the outlook from Snowflake as well as Broadcom's AI chip forecast and Nvidia's move to buy Hugging Face. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Infostealer malware apparently had harvested active Claude login sessions from users' PCs... View Source

After nearly eight years traveling through the inner solar system, the trailblazing BepiColombo spacecraft has finally begun its arrival at Mercury.The joint European Space Agency (ESA)-Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission reached a major milestone today (Sep. 3), entering its arrival phase at one of our sun's least-studied planets. BepiColombo's Mercury Transfer Module (MTM), the... View Source

Google is rolling out AI-powered voice assistant modes for Gmail, Docs, and Keep that allow you to manage the apps by talking to them. The real time conversational capabilities are called Gmail Live, Docs Live, and Keep Live, and like the Gemini Live experience for Google's chatbot, aim to make it easier to note down or find specific information when you're on the move or unable to do so manually... View Source

New York City just instituted a sweeping ban on schools using AI in the classroom through the start of high school, along with other restrictions on the technology. Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the one-year moratorium on Wednesday, calling it the “most comprehensive of its kind anywhere in the country.” “The tech industry wants us to believe that AI in early education is not on... View Source

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Anthropic PBC has resolved its long-running issues with the Trump administration but a top Pentagon official begs to differ... View Source

The latest crystal-covered Razr phone is here... View Source

Comet 220P/McNaught has already put on an unexpectedly impressive show this summer as two dramatic outbursts of activity caused it to shine 20,000 times brighter than usual. Here's how you can spot the icy interloper before it fades in the coming weeks.Comet 220P/McNaught orbits the sun once every 5.5-years. It reached perihelion — its closest point to the sun — on June 14. Solar heating typically... View Source

ThinkBooks, roll out! | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Lenovo's latest rollable concept, announced at IFA 2026, is the ThinkBook Project Swan: a business laptop with a screen that expands horizontally from 14 to 17 inches. Rollable screens are nothing new for Lenovo. The company has shown off several concepts and even launched a real one last year (and it was pretty great). But Project... View Source

Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf discusses the impetus for Nvidia's agreement to acquire the artificial intelligence startup in a transaction valued at about $13 billion. He speaks with Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Sony showed off expansions for Crimson Desert and Ghost of Yōtei, Grand Theft Auto 6 controllers and much more... View Source

OpenAI's ChatGPT, xAI's Grok, and Anthropic's Claude are all experiencing issues. At around 11AM ET, ChatGPT started returning error messages for users trying to use the chatbot, with its status page saying there are currently "elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex." In addition to preventing users from having conversations with ChatGPT, the outage is also affecting logins, file uploads, voice... View Source

The newest AI weather model from Google DeepMind not only forecasts how hard the wind blows at turbine height and how much sunlight reaches a solar farm, but refreshes those projections every hour from satellite images... View Source

Final Fantasy VII Revelation is the third in a trilogy of remakes that each cover a portion of the original PS1 game... View Source

After expanding its health and beauty lineup earlier this week with a camera-equipped electric toothbrush, Dyson is also introducing two new hair care products this month. The $329 Corrale CoolShine straightener upgrades the original Corrale that launched in 2020 with active cooling technology designed to "reduce residual heatexposure" so hair feels smoother, softer, and cooler to the touch after... View Source

Uber now lets you book a robotaxi in London — but you'll still be joined by a human in the front seat. Olivia Solon explains why. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Hohem has combined its gimbal tech with a wearable camera unit... View Source

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launches with NASA’S Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope onboard from Launch Complex 39A on Aug. 30, 2026, at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.NASA/Joel Kowsky Now on a three-month, million-mile journey to its final orbit, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will soon reveal the universe’s darkest secrets. The mission launched at 7:26 a.m. EDT on Aug. 30 aboard a Spa... View Source

AI agents going crazy has already boosted the GDP of Taiwan to 11%. This is the level of GDP growth for China during the decades long rise of China. The Rise of AI is boosting the GDP of the USA, Taiwan and Korea. We describe the world of agent AI and what it means. At ... Read more... View Source

On Sept. 3, 2006, a European satellite named SMART-1 crashed into the moon! This wasn't actually as disastrous as it sounds, because the spacecraft did it on purpose.SMART-1 launched in 2003 and was the first European spacecraft to go to the moon. It was also the first mission of a program called Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology, which was a series of low-cost spacecraft that the... View Source

Today, I’m talking with Tom Conrad, the CEO of Sonos. Tom and I have known each other for a long time — he was the chief technology officer of Pandora, VP of product at Snap, and the chief product officer of Quibi. He was also on the board at Sonos during its disastrous 2024 app redesign that threatened to crash the entire brand.  Tom took over as interim CEO to right the ship during that per... View Source

The digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses of individuals from the United States and Canada are being sold on the dark web through an easily accessible service called Nexus. As noted cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs noted on his blog this week, the sale has now caught the attention of the FBI, which has launched an official inquiry. On the same day Krebs published his post, th... View Source

The 2014 fund of early SpaceX backer 137 Ventures is now worth more than eight times the money investors originally put into it, net of fees and other charges... View Source

The detailed Lego replica of the first PlayStation console also features two miniature dioramas of classic PlayStation games... View Source

Explore Hubble Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits Hubble’s Impact & Benefits Science Impacts Cultural Impact Technology Benefits Impact on Human Spaceflight Astro Community Impacts Science Hubble Science Science Themes Science Highlights Science Behind Discoverie... View Source

Astrophotographer Mark Johnston captured the sun in remarkable detail from his backyard in Arizona. (Image credit: Mark Johnston)A spectacular series of glowing plasma loops arcs above the sun in this remarkable view captured from an astrophotographer's backyard. What is it? This image is a still from a high-resolution timelapse captured by astrophotographer Mark Johnston from Scottsdale, Arizona... View Source

Here you can see the Keypad Vision Pro (left) and the new Lock Ultra Max (right). | Image: SwitchBot SwitchBot has launched a new retrofit smart lock that gives owners multiple ways to enter European homes without a traditional key. Announced at IFA today, the SwitchBot Lock Ultra Max Vision Pro Combo provides multi-user entry and up to 19 ways to unlock doors, including, fingerprint scans, passco... View Source

Elliott Investment Management has built a sizeable stake in Deutsche Telekom and indicated the German telecommunications giant should ditch a potential merger with its American arm T-Mobile US, people familiar with the matter said. Swetha Gopinath reports on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The DJI ROMO 2 lineup also includes LiDAR-enabled mopping arms and improved obstacle avoidance... View Source

The Soundcore Space 2 Pro will be the first headphones to run on Anker’s Thus chip. | Image: Soundcore After introducing the Thus processing chip in April and releasing it with the Liberty 5 Pro series earbuds, Soundcore is bringing it to more audio products. The Thus chip is behind the best call quality I've ever heard from a pair of earbuds or headphones, virtually eliminating ambient sounds fro... View Source

At this point, the AI economy is like a drunk guy who managed to mount a tiger. Though nothing about the current situation is ideal, there’s no clear way to hop off without ensuring certain doom at the hands of a large, angry cat. So it goes with AI: though the ridiculous cost of data centers demands a seemingly exponential amount of capital, the rest of the economy would be in freefall with... View Source

Nvidia has agreed to purchase artificial intelligence startup Hugging Face. The transaction is valued at about $13 billion and includes an up to $1 billion equity-based retention program for Hugging Face employees that join Nvidia. Carmen Reinicke reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

HTC's Vive Eagle camera-equipped smart glasses come to the US, Europe and Australia... View Source

DJI has announced a second generation of its Romo robovac. The Romo 2 series is quieter, more powerful, and better at climbing over small steps and other obstacles. But more importantly for DJI, a new local-only data mode should go some way to reassuring anyone concerned by the first Romo's serious security flaws. There are actually two new Romo models, the transparent P2 and the opaque A2. Both b... View Source

S&P 500 Index futures are little changed as of 7:53 a.m. in New York. Technology shares are in focus, following results from with chipmaker Broadcom and Hewlett Packard Enterprise... View Source

We're liveblogging Dyson's press conference at IFA 2026 because we love cleaning gadgets... View Source

The “sculpted” design is more premium than other Nxtpaper phones so far. | Image: TCL With the P80 Ultra, TCL's E Ink-esque Nxtpaper phones are finally going OLED. Just like previous LCD models, the phone can switch to a low power, monochromatic display mode that replicates the look of paper when you want to read or minimize distractions. Only now you can switch back to what the company calls a "f... View Source

A Tesla running one of its self-driving modes was rear-ended after stopping in the middle of a Arizona highway, Electrek reports, with the driver found dead at the scene. Grimly, it’s not the first accident of its kind. The crash occurred on October 31, 2025. According to local reports at the time, the 2020 Tesla Model 3 was struck by an F-350 pickup around 3 AM on the eastbound Loop 202 in... View Source

Nvidia Corp. has agreed to acquire artificial intelligence startup Hugging Face in a transaction valued at about $13 billion... View Source

NVIDIA has confirmed it is buying AI software repository Hugging Face... View Source

Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland, 3rd September 2026, CyberNewswire... View Source

India plans to notch a spaceflight milestone today (Sept. 3), and you can watch the action live.A GSLV Mark II rocket is scheduled to launch an Earth-imaging satellite toward geosynchronous orbit — something India has never done successfully — from Satish Dhawan Space Centre today at 5:25 p.m. EDT (2:55 a.m. on Sept. 4 India Standard Time).You can watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of the I... View Source

Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, bringing one of the most popular hosting platforms for open-source AI models, datasets, and tools under the ownership of the world's biggest AI chipmaker. Hugging Face is an online platform founded in 2016 that gives AI developers a space to share their projects and data with other users and the general public. It's often described as the "... View Source

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is developing its planned satellite network with the help of employees poached from another Bezos project: Amazon.com Inc... View Source

Roborock showed off several new robovacs, a robomower and a pool cleaner at IFA 2026... View Source

Mammotion’s Luba 4 AWD can clean up the sides of your driveway and flower beds with its edger attachement. | Image: Mammotion Anker's new robot lawnmower might take over for your weed whacker, too. Announced at IFA 2026, the Eufy Robot Lawn Mower S2 Max comes with an extendable trimming arm to clean up the grass around your driveway and flowerbeds. The dual-blade mower offers vSLAM navigation that... View Source

An underground detector recorded a strange interaction pointing to a particle with some properties that signify dark matter. The detection is small but promising... View Source

The companies are under scrutiny for failing to join rivals on protections for young people... View Source

It didn't take DJI long to introduce a new version of its panoramic action cam that offers small but meaningful improvements at a slightly higher price... View Source

After introducing a consumer-friendly UV printer last year capable of printing designs directly on materials like wood, metal, glass, and acrylic, Anker's eufyMake brand is introducing a new machine that can print directly on fabrics. With an expected launch sometime in the spring of 2027, Anker hasn't yet revealed an official name for the new machine, but its "personal fabric printer" will offer... View Source

Israeli cybersecurity startup Guardio raised funds from investors including Assaf Rappaport, the founder of cloud security firm Wiz, in a round that values the company at $1.1 billion... View Source

On the Momentum True Wireless 5, a completely new design increases comfort while excellent sound and extended battery life are the main attractions... View Source

The Anker MindBase offers a local solution for advanced AI processing of camera footage and is a smart home hub that supports Matter. | Image: Anker Anker is launching the Eufy MindBase, a local AI hub for its security cameras that runs an on-device, Anker-developed LLM, which the company says can process your footage without it ever leaving your home. It's also announcing a handful of other smart... View Source

AI can produce thousands of drug ideas in seconds. That’s the problem... View Source

Gemini reportedly told a group of climbers that it would only take them eight hours to climb Mt. Shasta. They had to be rescued more than a day later... View Source

The future of a privately backed robotic mission Venus seems about as cloudy as the planet itself at the moment.Scientists based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are working with the California-based company Rocket Lab to search for possible signs of life on Venus. The first step in that program is the Rocket Lab Mission to Venus, which will deploy a small, nose cone-like probe c... View Source

Nanoleaf’s colorful wall panels will work in the Hue app thanks to a partnership between the two companies. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Philips Hue is finally adding wall panels into its smart lighting portfolio. But instead of developing its own, it's partnered with longtime rival Nanoleaf, the company that invented the smart modular wall panel category. Starting today, Septemb... View Source

Common sense is of no help in studying reality at the atomic scale... View Source

Belkin has announced new Anker power bank-lookalikes, solid state power banks and new SureFind trackers... View Source

Belkin’s SureFind Loop Cable Tag tracker includes a removable USB-C charging cable. | Image: Belkin After selling accessories for attaching Apple's AirTags to everything from keys to backpacks, Belkin is introducing its own trackers that work with either Apple's Find My or Google's Find Hub tracking networks. In addition to compatibility with Android and iOS, what differentiates these trackers fro... View Source

While companies promise they can help users monitor gut health, experts suggest that smart toilets provide little in the way of benefits to the average person... View Source

Belkin has announced SoundForm Isolate, Dot and Play... View Source

A projector for people who can afford to call this a “man cave.” | Image: Awol Vision Detail-preserving optical lens shift is not something you expect to find on an ultra-short throw projector running Google TV, but that's exactly what you'll find inside of Awol Vision's new LuxVision. It also promises to produce an incredibly bright (6000 ISO Lumens) 4K 120Hz image measuring 120 inches when place... View Source

In this episode of Merryn Talks Money, host Merryn Somerset Webb is joined by Bloomberg Senior Reporter John Stepek, Schroders Head of Strategic Research Duncan Lamont and Nelsons Chairman and Creative Scotland Chair Robert Wilson for a special roundtable recorded at Panmure House during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Marking 250 years since the publication of The Wealth of Nations, they ask what... View Source

The passport-style foldable is increasingly dominating foldable phone launches this year. Xiaomi has its own... View Source

Microsoft is changing how it reports its finances to investors by splitting its businesses into two segments and disclosing quarterly revenue for its Azure cloud business for the first time. The changes are meant to reflect the ongoing impact of AI on Microsoft and how the company now operates. The software giant has previously reported revenue from three segments: Productivity and Business Proces... View Source

Nearly all of Anker's new chargers have displays, and several can power multiple devices at once... View Source

Belkin is joining companies like BMX, Kuxiu, and Zens with the launch of its first power banks featuring semi-solid-state battery technology. The company claims the new accessories have been "engineered to last up to 3x longer than other power banks" with the addition of a "gel-like layer" alongside the liquid electrolyte typically found in lithium-ion batteries. Other advantages of what Belkin is... View Source

Security was the focus of Anker Eufy at IFA this year... View Source

Seventeen of Philip’s Hue’s new Liane rope lights on display at IFA this week. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge I love smart lighting, but I don't love many of the form factors it comes in. With a few exceptions, most smart, color-changing lamps and fixtures fit better in my teenage son's dorm room than my living room. So, I was pleasantly surprised to see Philips Hue's new line of a... View Source

Thoma Bravo-backed Proofpoint Inc. is in talks to acquire cybersecurity company Varonis Systems Inc., which would be one of the biggest technology take-privates since the steep selloff in software stocks earlier this year, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Alienware's new 25-inch 560Hz gaming monitor is its fastest ever... View Source

Philips Hue announced several software updates at IFA this week. Philips Hue's AI assistant can now build automations based on natural language, letting you describe what you want your lights to do. The feature, called Custom AI Behaviors, goes beyond simply changing colors or creating a scene and lets users orchestrate complex automations that weren't previously achievable in the Hue app. Announc... View Source

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. declined in late trading after the company reported increasing sales that didn’t meet high expectations from investors, who have seen the stock price more than double so far this year... View Source

South Korean police shared with prosecutors the findings of a long-running investigation into BTS agency Hybe Co. founder Bang Si-hyuk over allegations he misled investors ahead of the company’s 2020 listing... View Source

The World Meteorological Organization is warning that the climate phenomenon that has the Pacific running a fever will last until at least February, with dire consequences for weather worldwide... View Source

Broadcom predicted a surge in artificial intelligence chip sales over the next two years, helping renew optimism that it can challenge Nvidia’s dominance in the lucrative market. The company also is on track to top earnings of $30 a share in fiscal 2028, outpacing Wall Street estimates. Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Matt Bloxham has the details. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Asia’s economies from India to Malaysia and Australia defied all worst-case scenarios to post solid growth last quarter, as governments moved quickly to secure energy supplies and tapped relatively healthy balance sheets to cushion households... View Source

Earth Observatory Science Aqua Peatland Fires Darken Skies in… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble: Next Generation EO Kids Mission:... View Source

The Trump administration is weighing a fresh round of tariffs on imported semiconductors to lure more manufacturing to the US, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has said. Reporting from Semicon in Taiwan, Bloomberg's Stephen Engle says chip-supply-chain companies remain upbeat because AI chip demand is strong in the US. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 3 – The… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. The Eclipse and the Stork Explanation: How do animals react t... View Source

Benjamin Hein, CEO of Electronics at Merck KGaA, discusses the company's business strategy and the outlook for the semiconductor industry. He speaks with Stephen Engle from the sidelines of Semicon Taiwan in Taipei. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that Anthropic PBC has patched its relationship with the Trump administration, signaling a possible end to months of sharp differences over security between the US and the artificial intelligence developer... View Source

1% of companies generate 80% of OpenAI and Anthropic’s enterprise revenue. The top 1% of firms spend about 600x per employee what the median firm spends. Among individual developers, the top 1% write 46x more AI-generated code per day than the median user and merge 15x more pull requests. A small group of agentic power ... Read more... View Source

Broadcom Inc. predicted a boom in artificial intelligence chip sales over the next two years, helping renew optimism that it can challenge Nvidia Corp.’s dominance in the lucrative market... View Source

Google has released Gemini 3.8 Flash, its fourth Flash model in under four months – it scores 59 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and reaches the Intelligence vs. Cost per Task Pareto frontier... View Source

ByteDance Ltd., the developer of TikTok, has secured a $29.6 billion loan, according to people familiar with the matter, in Asia’s second-largest dollar-denominated borrowing this year... View Source

106 Model Ys were registered in Texas for Tesla robotaxi in about 24 hours, bringing the total to 375 Model Ys and 45 Cybercabs as of September 2, more than doubling the count from the prior week. Trackers like Texas Autonomous Vehicle Tracker confirmed the number after the final Model Y registration, with Tesla now ... Read more... View Source

Marc Ganzi, CEO of DigitalBridge, says AI infrastructure investing needs a diversified approach, but argues the real bottleneck is power. Speaking with Romaine Bostick on "Bloomberg The Close," Ganzi also says the industry cannot focus only on chips or software and stresses that the AI buildout should not be politicized. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Asia’s currency gauge has been on a two-month tear, with one measure of its relationship to the dollar close to a record low. But its strength belies a two-tier divide, with currencies of technology-heavy exporters roaring ahead and set to further outperform peers less cushioned against high oil prices... View Source

China is about a decade and a half behind in developing cutting-edge chipmaking tools, according to a top executive at Germany’s Zeiss Group, a key supplier in the global semiconductor industry... View Source

The centuries-old roads in the UK capital present challenges that Los Angeles and San Francisco don’t... View Source

Malaysia’s central bank is expected to keep interest rates unchanged on Thursday, with subdued inflation giving policymakers little reason to tighten despite resilient economic growth... View Source

Adobe added dozens of tools from its creative apps like Illustrator and Premiere Pro into Slack, allowing you to ask Slackbot to do the Photoshopping for you... View Source

Big Oil has often employed the “hang around” playbook: secure legal rights to a giant resource — and then, eventually, figure out how to produce it profitably. But few companies have taken it to the extremes of Chevron Corp... View Source

With cryptocurrency wallets becoming huge targets for hackers, using a cold wallet to protect your private keys has never been more important... View Source

Frank Rohmund, CEO of Zeiss SMT, a key supplier to ASML's EUV lithography machines, sayd he expects that Beijing will need 15 years to develop EUV lithography machine, and additional export controls will only accelerates innovation in China. He speaks with Bloomberg's Stephen Engle on the sidelines of Semicon Taiwan. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Uber launches first robotaxis in London (with human supervisors)... View Source

Uber beat out Waymo in launching a commercial robotaxi service in London, the city's first. The vehicles use autonomous driving tech developed by Wayve, a UK-based startup, and will initially feature safety drivers behind the wheel. The launch is a milestone for Uber, which has been plotting a UK launch with Wayve for several years. In beating Waymo to the punch, it allows Uber to set the standard... View Source

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are Alger Executive Vice President, Portfolio Manager Ankur Crawford, ProShares Head of Research, Active Investments CIO Alessio De Longis, Oppenheimer Managing Director & Senior Analyst Brian Nagel, MongoDB CEO CJ Desai, Edwa... View Source

TikTok dropped out of an upcoming meeting with the House Select Committee on China on national security issues, saying it couldn’t participate because of unrelated child-safety litigation, the leader of the panel said... View Source

CJ Desai, CEO of MongoDB, says MongoDB feels very good about demand, noting Atlas delivered its fifth straight quarter of 29% growth and that total Atlas dollars continue to rise quarter over quarter. He speaks with Romaine Bostick & Sally Bakewell on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Microsoft Corp. will begin disclosing quarterly sales for its Azure cloud unit, reversing course after years of criticism from Wall Street regarding a lack of information about the company’s most important growth engine... View Source

A mysterious giant 10-sided pattern of clouds has recently formed around Saturn's south pole, a new study finds.This newfound "decagon" joins the bizarre colossal hexagon seen for decades at Saturn's north pole. Saturn's hexagon — a cloud pattern about 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometers) wide — was first discovered in 1988 by scientists reviewing data from NASA's Voyager flybys of Saturn in 1980 and... View Source

Representatives from the world’s largest economies unanimously agreed to adopt guidelines proposed by the US that call for a lighter touch toward governing artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, handing a win to the Trump administration and Silicon Valley... View Source

We're sure people will be very chill and normal in the chat for this one... View Source

Snowflake Inc. gained in extended trading after the company raised its outlook for annual sales, topping analysts’ estimates, and touted rapid adoption of its AI-assisted coding tool... View Source

Climate scientists now aim to minimize time spent above the limit from the Paris Agreement... View Source

Another reusable Chinese rocket has taken to the skies.Pallas-1, a launcher developed by the Beijing-based company Galactic Energy, flew for the first time ever on Monday (Aug. 31), lifting off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 10 p.m. EDT (0200 GMT and 10 a.m. Beijing time on Sept. 1).Everything went well on the mission, according to Galactic Energy.Galactic Energy's... View Source

Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, arriving just a few weeks after its predecessor. The company claims the new model "works harder" than Gemini 3.7 Flash by performing more reasoning steps on complex tasks and "calling tools iteratively." It has the same introductory pricing as 3.7 Flash, $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, but could still end up costing users more... View Source

When the long awaited role playing game “Fallout 4” dropped in 2015, it marked the first installation in the franchise in five years. The release quickly became a running joke, with working class gamers yukking it up over their plans to call in sick the day it hit store shelves, and the game’s developer even issuing a bogus doctor’s note. Now history seems to be repeating i... View Source

NASA has decided to use a simpler spacesuit for its initial missions to the lunar surface, Ars has learned. The agency announced the decision during an internal meeting this week as it seeks to accelerate its program to land humans at the South Pole of the Moon as early as 2028. At the direction of Artemis Program Manager Jeremy Parsons, NASA will work with Axiom Space to develop a "Sortie Suit" v... View Source

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent blasted the US companies ramping up investment in artificial intelligence, faulting them for failing to build ties with communities amid a wave of popular concern over data centers boosting the cost of living... View Source

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 2 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Solar Eclipses and Culture Explanation: Pretend you have never he... View Source

US District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema declined the Justice Department's request to make Google sell off parts of its ad tech business, accepting milder remedies to restore competition to markets it illegally monopolized for years. Brinkema said she would adopt most of the behavioral changes proposed by the parties, with some modifications. But those won't become public until the parties meet to... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. released its most powerful artificial intelligence model yet, with its chief AI officer saying its capabilities are edging closer to top competitors... View Source

4 Min Read NASA Revamps Challenge Linking Community College Studies to Aerospace Careers Community college students across the U.S. now have another opportunity to discover how their education can lead to fulfilling roles at the forefront of aerospace, science, engineering, and technology. The updated NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars (NCAS) student challenge invites students to learn abou... View Source

Famed author Thomas Wolfe coined the phrase "You Can’t Go Home Again" with the title of his classic 1940 novel, and while that actually might be true in some cases, "The Mandalorian and Grogu" gets its homecoming as it arrives on Disney+ for fans today, Sept. 2, 2026.Honestly, this is probably where the $166 million "The Mandalorian" spinoff movie should have premiered in the first place, but Disn... View Source

David Faugno, CEO at 1Password, at the Web Summit conference in Lisbon, Portugal, on November 11th, 2025. | Photo: Zed Jameson / Bloomberg via Getty Image 1Password faced immediate backlash from customers this week over a $300,000 pledge in support of a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published overtly racist blog posts that include comments calling for deportat... View Source

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman says artificial intelligence will be the greatest boom in business the world has ever seen. He speaks to US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick at a tech event in North Carolina hosted by the US for G20 members.  (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

NYC public schools are taking a year without generative AI tools... View Source

Explore Hubble Science Hubble Space Telescope NASA’s Hubble Tracks New… Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits Hubble’s Impact & Benefits Science Impacts Cultural Impact Technology Benefits Impact on Human Spaceflight Astro Community Impacts Science Hubble Science Sc... View Source

The discounted Garmin InReach 3 Mini can help you stay in touch when you’re out in the wilderness. | Image: Garmin Summer is winding down, but REI’s Labor Day sale is here to help save you some bucks on gear that’ll let you get the most out of your upcoming outdoor expeditions. There are many, many discounts, from men’s and women’s clothing and REI Co-op gear to equipment for camping and hiking an... View Source

A traveling petting zoo has become the center of a mini health crisis in North Carolina.  After recently hosting events for elderly people and schoolchildren, several of its adorable baby goats tested positive for rabies, The New York Times reported, in a situation that the zoo’s owner is calling a “nightmare.” Now, state officials are scrambling to get the word out, stressi... View Source

Cook deja el cargo de CEO tras 15 años al frente de Apple... View Source

The BepiColombo mission is finally getting ready to arrive at its exotic destination.BepiColombo launched in October 2018 and took a long, looping and highly circuitous route toward Mercury our solar system's innermost planet. That journey is now nearly over, and the mission is gearing up for arrival.BepiColombo's two science orbiters — one run by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the other by t... View Source

OpenAI is on the cusp of releasing its most powerful AI model yet, Astra, following weeks of delays to shore up safety protocols after its agents attacked real targets during testing. As details about the model trickle out, researchers are warning it "may be the single worst development for AI security/safety to date." Shortly after OpenAI said on Tuesday that it had delayed Astra's release to wor... View Source

Former Republican congressman and ironic meme icon George Santos was just banned from Kalshi — for life. It’s the first lifetime ban that the prediction market has ever handed out, the New York Times reports, which is pretty incredible considering all the inside trading that’s suspected to happen on the platform. There was pretty much nothing “suspected” about Santos’... View Source

Ouster’s technology gives machines the ability to see and navigate the world around them — helping drive the rise of physical AI.The company is expanding into drone mapping through a partnership with GeoCue, while John Deere is bringing Ouster sensors to its GUSS autonomous vehicles. Ouster CEO and co-founder Angus Pacala discusses the company’s push into new markets and the growing demand for phy... View Source

A judge previously determined that Google illegally monopolized a pair of ad tech markets... View Source

Amazon is trying to combat impersonation scams with a new feature that allows you to use its AI assistant to determine whether an email, text message, or phone call actually came from the company. With the update, you can ask Alexa for Shopping about a message you received, and it will use AI to compare it "against a record of every message Amazon has sent," while also analyzing its contents, form... View Source

Napster, the former music-streaming platform, is betting on low-cost AI agents as its path back to success... View Source

Nexus Mods said the community-led SteamDB site will operate as it always has, while becoming stronger and better resourced... View Source

Blue Origin will build NASA's next Mars orbiter.The agency announced on Tuesday (Sept. 1) that it has selected Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company to develop the $700 million Mars Telecommunications Network (MTN), which is expected to be up and running at the Red Planet by 2030."The award marks a milestone in NASA's strategy to expand communications and navigation services beyond Earth and the moon, e... View Source

I think automakers are finally getting the memo. Rather than try to reinvent the wheel with its new electric vehicle, Range Rover just made one that looks nearly identical to its lineup of gas-powered SUVs. They didn't try to pass off some sleek, spaceship-looking pod as a Range Rover. Sometimes familiar designs are the way to go. Of course, under the surface the Range Rover Electric is nothing li... View Source

EPA giving away $11 million to boost water systems cybersecurity... View Source

The same Apple I computer sold for over $671,000 in 2013... View Source

The doors to Europe's largest consumer tech show haven't opened to the public yet, but there's already plenty of news coming out of IFA 2026 in Berlin, Germany. If you're already struggling to keep up with what has been announced, here are some of the best new gadgets and upgrades from the show - including more competition for Apple's MacBook Neo, an excellent portable controller for gaming-on-the... View Source

In a lake in northern British Columbia, an island suddenly appeared, almost out of thin air, thickly covered in fully-grown trees. When a boater posted footage of the new island on social media, incredulous officials thought the video was AI-generated, according to the New York Times. But it was no hoax. Satellite imagery of Williston Lake, an artificial reservoir and Canada’s largest body o... View Source

Wonderful has closed a fundraising round that values the Israeli-Dutch startup, which builds software that coordinates artificial intelligence agents, at $5 billion... View Source

High above Earth, thin veils of metallic haze drift through the edge of space. Known as sporadic E layers, these high-altitude “clouds” form from the vaporized dust of burnt-up meteors, earning their name from the unpredictable way they emerge and then dissipate. Now, new results from a NASA sounding rocket — a suborbital research rocket — that flew five detectors through one of these layers simul... View Source

Released in 2014, "Alien: Isolation" was a sci-fi horror gaming masterpiece that combined stealth, survival horror mechanics, and cinema's greatest monster to create an underpants-ruiningly terrifying experience. After earning phenomenal reviews, winning awards, and selling millions of copies globally, players were left clamouring for a sequel. Now, 12 years later, it's finally happening. In June... View Source

The Trump administration has intervened in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, making an argument in favor of the AI lab. The landmark lawsuit, filed in December 2023, alleging that OpenAI unlawfully trained its AI systems on articles from The New York Times and seeks to recoup "billions of dollars" in damages from both Microsoft and OpenAI. This week, the Trump administration fi... View Source

Rockefeller Capital Management President and CEO Greg Fleming says the broader economy has reasons for optimism, led by artificial intelligence. Speaking on "Bloomberg Open Interest," Fleming also says he sees broad-based wealth creation in the US but expresses his concerns about the federal deficit. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The source could be an ID verification service in Louisiana, though the FBI has opened an investigation... View Source

A partial lunar eclipse is visible over southern Louisiana on Aug. 28, 2026NASA/Eric Bordelon On Aug. 28, 2026 (the evening of Aug. 27 in some time zones), the Moon passed into Earth’s shadow, creating a deep partial lunar eclipse. At the moment of greatest eclipse, 12:13 a.m. EDT, 96.3% of the Moon’s disk was immersed in Earth’s umbra—the central, darkest part of the shadow where sunlight is comp... View Source

MrBeast will feature Gemini, Google Health, and the Fitbit Air in upcoming videos as part of a multi-year partnership with Google. The deal will kick off with a video featuring Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson turning to Gemini for wilderness survival advice: First up on September 5 is a new MrBeast video following Jimmy and his crew as they attempt to survive some of the most extreme and treacherous cli... View Source

Earlier this year, Anthropic’s Mythos AI model made headlines when it was caught infiltrating third party systems, a cybersecurity nightmare years in the making. The company warned in April that the model had escaped a sandbox environment during testing, gaining access to the internet without permission. The model was challenged to break out and then find a way of sending a direct message to... View Source

Spyware targeted Serbian student activists and politicians involved in anti-corruption protests against President Aleksandar Vucic ahead of local elections in March, a new report claimed... View Source

The company is also asking almost all remote employees to move to an office... View Source

Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google’s newest Flash-tier model released September 2, 2026. It is the most capable Flash model yet for mid-difficulty long-horizon software engineering, autonomous agents, and enterprise workflows, while keeping Flash-level speed and the same introductory pricing as 3.7 Flash. It is a value model. Pricing is the same as 3.7 Flash Introductory ... Read more... View Source

In the four years that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been making observations of the early universe, it has been delivering one scientific milestone after another. However, the $10 billion telescope has also left astronomers with a massive problem  — literally.The JWST has been routinely spotting supermassive black holes in the early universe that, at hundreds of millions of times the... View Source

The SoundForm Mini 2 come in a variety of colors, and include a carrying case if you’re willing to spend a bit more. | Image: The Verge Verge readers can get a discount on Belkin’s SoundForm Mini 2 wireless headphones. The kid-focused on-ear headphones feature an 85-decibel volume limit and easy controls, and a mode that lets them beam audio (wired or wirelessly) to a second pair without extra har... View Source

On this episode of Stock Movers: - Uber Technologies (UBER) is cutting about 3,300 roles, or 10% of its staff globally, in a massive restructuring aimed at reducing management layers and reallocating spending into its ride-sharing, delivery and robotaxi businesses. - Dell Technologies (DELL) shares gain after the company’s second-quarter results beat expectations and it raised its full-year revenu... View Source

On Sept. 2, 2016, the European Space Agency finally located Philae, its long-lost comet lander. Philae was a spacecraft about the size of a washing machine, and it was dropped off at Comet 67P by another spacecraft named Rosetta in November 2014. But when Philae's landing harpoons failed to deploy, it bounced all over the comet before tumbling into a shady place where its solar panels couldn't col... View Source

OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman are facing 30 new lawsuits that accuse them of providing "substantial assistance and encouragement" to the suspect in Canada's Tumbler Ridge school shooting, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The new wave of lawsuits was filed in a California federal court on Wednesday by the students, teachers, and the principal in the school at the time of the shooting. Similar to... View Source

There’s a burning question on the minds of those about to attend one of the world’s most iconic festivals this summer: how should they deal with Meta smart glasses? As controversy around the gadgets grows, some events and venues have taken a hard line against wearing the camera-equipped frames. Basement, one of New York City’s buzziest nightclubs, recently said it would permanent... View Source

ElevenLabs has hired former OpenAI executive Ashley Kramer as its first chief revenue officer, part of the  startup’s efforts to drum up business demand for  its artificial intelligence voice tools... View Source

Acer is launching a 7-inch version of the Predator Atlas 8... View Source

Fire spews from the 27 Merlin engines of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket during the launch of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on Aug. 30, 2026. (Image credit: SpaceX)SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket can generate some serious thrust, leading to incredible displays of fireworks as seen in the photo above.What is it?In this photo, the 27 Merlin engines of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket spew fire as t... View Source

The Tado Smart Thermostat X is the second-generation Matter-over-Thread thermostat from the European company. | Image: Tado When Google ignominiously exited the European thermostat market last year, it pointed its customers to Tado. This week, the German-based smart home company is launching its Smart Thermostat X (2nd gen), and aiming to attract European Nest users who haven't already jumped ship... View Source

Last month, Google updated its home page to replace its iconic “Search” button with various AI features. The move was the latest sign of the tech giant succumbing to the draw of AI that remains deeply flawed — and the staggering amount of misinformation that comes along with it. Even the experience of shopping online is starting to look dramatically different, and consumers may be payi... View Source

Upwind Security, a startup offering cybersecurity for artificial intelligence and cloud applications, is raising fresh financing that values the company at $3.8 billion, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

The nine-year-old game that keeps giving... View Source

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang called on Group of 20 nations to accelerate their adoption of artificial intelligence as a way to enhance growth, urging the world’s largest economies to expand data centers and other infrastructure to support the emerging technology... View Source

It's hard to be confident about Star Wars Zero Company's future after the studio that made it furloughed most of its staff... View Source

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In what could be a groundbreaking discovery, scientists report they may have detected the first direct evidence of dark matter. The potential detection came from the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment, in the form of a single suspected interaction between a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP), one of the leading hypothetical particle candidates for dark matter, and an everyday particle.Dark matter has b... View Source

The New York Times has prepared some exclusive goodies for its subscribers: a weekly drop of bonus puzzles based on the publication's popular games. Five to six new puzzles will be released every Wednesday, each featuring "a twist" on games like Wordle, Strands, Connections, and Crossword that are designed to keep puzzleheads playing with fresh yet familiar experiences. The availability of bonus p... View Source

OpenAI was hit with multiple lawsuits claiming the artificial intelligence company could have prevented a mass shooting in Canada earlier this year by informing law enforcement about the suspected killer’s messages with the popular chatbot ChatGPT... View Source

Tips for fixing connection issues with the remote for Apple's streaming box... View Source

An ongoing class action lawsuit against Meta, which accuses the tech giant of misrepresenting its privacy practices regarding its controversial Meta AI Glasses, was amended yesterday to include a new class of “bystander” plaintiffs who claim that Meta violated their privacy without their consent. The implications are considerable. The new violations occurred even if bystanders never pu... View Source

The memory-chip makers were a low priority when the US sought to revive domestic manufacturing... View Source

United Airlines is testing a new offering that will let you order food from its app and have it delivered to your gate... View Source

You may have seen the International Space Station whizzing across the night sky before, but have you ever seen China's Tiangong space station? Three taikonauts are currently orbiting Earth aboard the Tiangong space station — and just days after two of them spent 5.5 hours outside the station repairing a solar array, there are particularly good opportunities to see it from parts of the eastern U.S... View Source

Believe it or not, the Tesla Cybercab is coming. Nearly two years after Elon Musk first unveiled the gold-tinted, gull-wing door sporting, steering wheel-free two-seaters as the future of Tesla's autonomy efforts, the company is finally putting them into operation as part of its robotaxi service in Austin, Texas. Public rides are here, and as Musk fans will assert, the era of Tesla's robotaxi domi... View Source

The initial public offering of Shanghai Enflame Technology Co., a company backed by Tencent Holdings Ltd., drew strong demand from retail investors, as the last of the so-called “four little dragons” of leading Chinese artificial intelligence chipmakers taps the public market... View Source

iRobot has launched the $1,199 Roomba Max 875 Combo and the $899 Roomba Plus 678 Combo at IFA 2026... View Source

The Starlink missions keep on coming.A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 27 of the company's internet satellites to orbit this morning (Sept. 2), lifting off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base at 4:42 a.m. EDT (0842 GMT; 1:42 a.m. local California time). It was the 35th flight for this Falcon 9's first stage, which is known as Booster 1063. That's just two shy of the SpaceX reuse record,... View Source

Last week, I powered on a 26-year-old copy of Pokémon Pinball, one of the best Game Boy games ever made. My save file was no more. The Charmander I'd caught for my daughter, the high scores we'd set together… gone. Before flash memory, Nintendo cartridges used tiny watch batteries to save their games, and those batteries were never meant to last this long. But it's not a huge deal, because... View Source

Uber Technologies Inc. is cutting about 3,300 roles, or 10% of its staff globally, in a massive restructuring aimed at reducing management layers and reallocating spending into its ride-sharing, delivery and robotaxi businesses... View Source

Acer is also introducing a new 34-inch ultrawide and several models with dynamic refresh rates... View Source

When it comes to the best VPN services, there are plenty to choose from. Our tech-savvy colleagues at TechRadar and T3 have tried and tested the majority of the leading providers, and both these trusted sites awarded Proton VPN an impressive 4.5 out of 5 stars. Right now you can save 70% on a 2-year subscription to Proton VPN. TechRadar crowned Proton VPN as its 'best VPN service for privacy,' whi... View Source

LG’s CLOiD is a robot housekeeper on wheels, not legs. The company says it’s developing a robot foundation model by training hundreds of CLOiDs in home environments. | Image: LG The idea of humanoid robots running our homes has been the stuff of science fiction for years. But unlike hoverboards and self-tying sneakers, a robot housekeeper has never felt close to rolling into our homes. Until now... View Source

The head of the UK’s £500 million ($675 million) Sovereign AI Fund urged the government to adopt an investor mindset as ministers seek to spur growth in the domestic industry... View Source

The Vero 16 includes removable port covers, a detachable external hinge and a latch on the bottom that doesn't require tools to open... View Source

Acer calls the Swift Blade 14’s colors marshmallow blue and marshamallow white. Now I want sweets. | Image: Acer Acer is announcing a new laptop poised to rival the MacBook Air's thinness and lightness - and in the process, it cops another laptop's name. The Acer Swift Blade 14 (not to be confused with the Razer Blade 14) is a productivity machine weighing just 1.76 pounds / 799g and measuring as... View Source

Job cuts in the Seattle area are hurting luxury real estate sales... View Source

It's a showcase of NVIDIA's latest chip tech... View Source

It's now possible to disentangle the sprinkling of supernova dust on the moon from the lunar dirt it is mixed up in, thanks to a new computer model that opens up the moon's surface as a time capsule holding details about the history of supernova explosions near the Earth as our solar system has travelled through space while orbiting the galaxy.When stars explode as a supernova, they shower space w... View Source

Acer has invented… the laptop. For the last few years, PC gamers on the go have had a choice: Buy a gaming laptop, or pick up one of the many Steam Deck-inspired handhelds that are a fraction of the size but a lot less versatile. Acer's latest concept device, Project DualPlay Mini, is an attempt to upend that dichotomy by sticking a keyboard in a handheld. The DualPlay Mini is first and foremost a... View Source

Jaguar Land Rover's first electric Range Rover will start at £154,070 ($208,420), a price tag that will test wealthy buyers’ appetites for a battery-powered sport utility vehicle. Nigel Blenkinsop, chief operating officer at Jaguar Land Rover, speaks on Bloomberg Television about the new vehicle, the outlook for sales in the US and competition with Chinese automakers. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Acer's Project DualPlay Mini is gaming handheld that becomes a tiny laptop... View Source

In 2007, the US was on the cusp of an economic recession, and Buddy Rizer was tasked with finding Loudoun County, Virginia, a new way to make money. Rizer’s earlier career as a radio DJ didn’t exactly make him an obvious candidate to find a solution, but he was looking for what he called a “real job” and stumbled into a role at Loudoun’s economic development authority.  This new gig came with... View Source

If you see a Prop 65 warning, don’t fret. Here’s what you need to know... View Source

Kingspan Group Plc is looking to raise an expected €800 million ($925 million) from a two-part green bond sale, after the AI data center buildout helped the Irish company lift its profit outlook last month... View Source