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As an avid vanlifer, I have to carefully curate everything I carry in order to eke out every square inch of storage I can to support life off the grid for weeks at a time. That's why I jumped at the chance to review DJI's latest power station. The DJI Power 1000 Mini is almost half the size of the original DJI Power 1000 released two years ago with the same 1kWh battery capacity. And from my calcu... View Source

Germany’s banks are well-prepared for heightened cyber risks as Anthropic’s new artificial intelligence model sparks global fears of a new era for computer hacks, said Deutsche Bank AG Chief Executive Officer Christian Sewing... View Source

The Lyrid meteor shower peak is almost here, and we may be in store for spectacular fireballs and shooting stars... View Source

Huawei’s Pura X Max (pictured) is the first wide-style foldable over the finish line. | Image: Huawei / The Verge Huawei has launched its passport-style foldable in China, ahead of similar devices said to be coming from Apple and Samsung. That makes the Pura X Max the first wide foldable phone that's actually available to buy, with today's launch now giving us the full specifications and price aft... View Source

JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s global co-head of payments, Umar Farooq, and Citigroup Inc.’s global head of partnerships & innovation, Biswarup Chatterjee, talk about how the banks are playing in the new global payments space. They spoke to Bloomberg's Emily Mason in New York last month. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The faltering shoe company says it will become an AI computing provider... View Source

AST SpaceMobile Inc. shares plunged in early trading on Monday after Blue Origin’s flagship New Glenn rocket failed to correctly place a payload it was carrying for the Texas-based satellite networking company into its intended orbit... View Source

Chinese technology giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. made its debut investment into Kazakhstan’s fintech sector with the acquisition of a stake in Kaspi.kz JSC... View Source

Our universe is full of mysteries, but few are as perplexing as the dark, tiny galaxies that hover around larger ones like the Milky Way... View Source

A remote Antarctic research team became the only people on Earth to witness a rare annular solar eclipse — and one scientist had to improvise to capture it... View Source

The Mission family. | Image: GoPro GoPro is pricing its new Mission 1 and Mission 1 Pro cameras at $599.99 and $699.99, respectively, each discounted by $100 if you subscribe to its ecosystem - fine for professional filmmakers, but a tough sell for weekend warriors. The Mission 1 and Mission 1 Pro can both be reserved now, and you'll get the $100 Point-and-Shoot Grip accessory for free (while supp... View Source

A longitudinal study found that loneliness is more closely linked to lapses in immediate and delayed recall than to the overall speed of cognitive decline... View Source

Terrahaptix Inc., a Nigerian drone-making startup, will open its first factory abroad in Ghana, where it will build mid-range pilotless aircraft and defense systems in response to increasing Islamist-militant activity in West Africa... View Source

Sebastian Raedler, head of European equity strategy at Bank of America, discusses the outlook for tech stocks, cyclicals and the risk of demand destruction as a result of higher energy prices. He speaks on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Nik Storonsky, Revolut co-founder and CEO, said he wants to take the London-based digital bank public, but not until at least 2028, extending the timeline on one of Europe’s most anticipated offerings. “Two years away,” Storonsky said regarding a potential initial public offering in an interview with David Rubenstein for an upcoming episode of "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer to Peer Conversations... View Source

Blue Origin has successfully reused its first-stage New Glenn booster for the first time after it landed in a cloud of smoke and fire on a recovery ship. It marks the second flight and reuse of Never Tell me the Odds, after the booster was recovered from New Glenn's previous launch in November last year. However, the rocket company's first commercial mission was marred by a failure to pl... View Source

AirTrunk, a data center operator backed by Blackstone Inc., is buying Lumina CloudInfra to expand in India... View Source

IQiyi Inc. expects AI to create a big chunk of its films and shows virtually from scratch someday soon, a monumental industry shift that spurred the Netflix-style streaming service to begin the biggest corporate overhaul in its 16-year history... View Source

Siemens AG will prioritize investments in the US and China if the European Union doesn’t change its artificial intelligence regulations, Chief Executive Officer Roland Busch said... View Source

Singapore’s financial regulator is urging banks to plug their cybersecurity holes, as concerns over Anthropic PBC’s latest AI model Mythos spread to Asia... View Source

China’s cheap artificial intelligence models are rapidly attracting global users and creating new winners in the nation’s stock market... View Source

Australian data center operator NEXTDC Ltd. will undertake a A$1.5 billion ($1.1 billion) capital raising, boosting its coffers as demand for capacity at its facilities surges... View Source

Singapore’s growth is poised to moderate as its export-driven model is strained by geopolitical tensions and a fragmenting global trading system, though it could draw support from opportunities in the Middle East, according to Bloomberg Intelligence... View Source

Bill Ackman has offered to buy Universal Music Group. What he really wants is for the stock to go up... View Source

Despite the months-long feud between Anthropic and the Pentagon, the National Security Agency is using the AI company's new Mythos Preview, according to Axios, which spoke to two sources with knowledge of the matter. Anthropic announced Mythos Preview at the beginning of April, describing it as a general-purpose language model that is "strikingly capable at computer security tasks." But back in Fe... View Source

Liftoff. | Anadolu via Getty Images Today's launch of AST SpaceMobile's BlueBird 7 satellite aboard Blue Origin's reusable New Glenn rocket was a partial success. The New Glenn touched down on its landing pad without incident, making it the second launch and landing for the first stage booster, and officially giving Jeff Bezos a reusable launch vehicle. Unfortunately for AST SpaceMobile, the missi... View Source

Vercel, a major development platform that hosts and deploys web apps, was compromised, and the hackers are attempting to sell stolen data. A person claiming to be a member of ShinyHunters, which was behind the recent hack of Rockstar Games, posted some data online, including employee names, email addresses, and activity time stamps. Vercel confirmed in a post on X that a "security incident" had oc... View Source

To make up for an incredibly laughable inaugural event, Beijing is running back its humanoid robot half-marathon. Fortunately, the event that pits humanoid robots made by Chinese companies against each other across 13 miles went a lot smoother this year. This year's half-marathon hosted more than 100 competitors, with first place going to Honor, better known for its smartphones, and its red-clad r... View Source

The first major failure of Blue Origin's new heavy-launch system could create delays to its ambition to help NASA and the Trump administration return to the Moon... View Source

Tesla chip partners will help them resolve shortages of cpu, gpus and memory for the next 2-4 years. Intel is critical for CPUs Nvidia for GPUs. TSMC, Samsung for production of AI5 and AI6 chips. Samsung for memory... View Source

In case you haven't gotten around to reading Palantir CEO Alex Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska's 2025 book, The Technological Republic, (because why would you do that to yourself?), the company best known for supplying AI-driven defense and surveillance software to the likes of the US Army, ICE and NYPD shared a 1,000-word X post this weekend covering its main points. The entire thing is bo... View Source

Based on what the orbit appears to be. 20kg of fuel they can only raise it part of the way. ASTS admits the satellite is too low and cannot be saved, During the New Glenn 3 mission, BlueBird 7 was placed into a lower than planned orbit by the upper stage of the launch vehicle. ... Read more... View Source

Anyone looking to upgrade to the next Mac Studio or MacBook Pro might have to wait a little longer, thanks to the ongoing global memory shortage. As reported by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, "at least two of the company's upcoming machines ... could debut a little later than the company initially planned," referencing the refreshes to Apple's desktop and its laptop that's expected to get a touchscreen... View Source

Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp said the company would like to launch eight to 12 flights this year, citing unprecedented demand for launches and the growing number of satellite-based internet services and connectivity. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Tesla is expanding its Robotaxi footprint across Texas by introducing availability in both Dallas and Houston. As announced in a post on X, the EV maker is rolling out its Robotaxis to small sections of the Texas cities, as detailed by two maps of its new service areas.  The first Robotaxi rides started in Austin, Texas where Tesla is headquartered, but the service's launch was paired with a... View Source

SpaceX will launch a new GPS satellite for the U.S. Space Force early Monday morning (April 20), and you can watch the action live... View Source

Blue Origin’s New Glenn NG-3 mission launched successfully this morning (April 19, 2026) from Cape Canaveral, carrying AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird 7 (Block 2 FM2) satellite. After the launch and booster recover, the mission continued for 90 minutes or so. T Planned second-stage profile (per pre-launch timeline and Blue Origin) was ~T+75 minutes the payload separation ... Read more... View Source

Blue Origin, the space launch company founded by Jeff Bezos, achieved a successful recovery of its first reused orbital-class rocket, but the payload it put into space was left in the wrong location... View Source

Over the past several years, Nothing’s budget-centric subsidiary, CMF, has built a reputation for producing attractive, inexpensive products with features often reserved for gadgets that cost twice the price. The CMF Headphone Pro — the company’s first pair of over-ear wireless headphones — fit precisely in that lane, especially now that they’re on sale at Amazon in both light gray and a subtle gr... View Source

Also: Memory shortages could push back new Macs... View Source

In space, no one can hear you ask for sun cream... View Source

Gully Foyle is my name… | Image: Brick Tower Press This might feel like a somewhat obvious recommendation to some, but it flew under my radar until now. Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination (originally published as Tiger! Tiger! in the UK) is a 1956 sci-fi novel that some have cited as a precursor to cyberpunk. It's a work I admit I have some conflicted feelings about, but one I think is well... View Source

After months of quiet skies, the Lyrids return with fast, bright meteors and dark, moonless viewing conditions before dawn... View Source

The Keychron Q1 Ultra 8K in white (left) and the V5 Ultra 8K in black (right). | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Keychron's expansive keyboard catalog covers everything from basic full-size mechanical boards to niche layouts like southpaw Alice or a one-handed half-keyboard for gaming. Its Q and V series are among our go-to recommendations for off-the-shelf keyboards, and the latest ite... View Source

As demand for electricity surges in the age of artificial intelligence, copper has become a critical input for everything from data centers to power grids. But US production has stagnated for decades, leaving the country increasingly reliant on imports even as global demand accelerates. In Arizona, projects like Rio Tinto’s Resolution mine highlight both the scale of untapped domestic resources an... View Source

Watch the crescent moon cross the blue-white stars of the Pleiades on April 19 from the comfort of your home... View Source

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more stories on Big Tech versus politics in Washington, DC, follow Tina Nguyen and read Regulator. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started A long time ago, in 2004, the Federal Communications Commission laid down a rule designed to pr... View Source

It's a major milestone for the company's new mega-rocket system, putting it in position to challenge SpaceX's dominance of the global launch market... View Source

Jeremy Hansen praised for speaking French in space after Air Canada chief’s linguistic snub exposed tensions and drew rebuke from PMFew people foresaw humanity’s quest for the moon as accurately as the 19th-century French author Jules Verne, whose two works –From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon – anticipated many of the features of modern lunar exploration.But Verne’s language had never... View Source

Scientists have used a synthetic universe to observe how the first galaxies evolved and grew. In fact, it is so close to the real thing that it's tricking some astronomers... View Source

Hackers exploited a cross-chain bridge on Saturday, draining nearly $300 million from a key piece of decentralized finance infrastructure and setting off a ripple effect across multiple crypto platforms... View Source

Tesla has 70+ robotaxi vehicles parked in Dallas and another 30+ in Houston. They are identified by camera washer hardware, matching Texas manufacturer/test plates, and behavior (simulated pickups/dropoffs in testing). A few individual sightings (service center cars) have visible Robotaxi markings or logos on the rear. The parked vehicles with hardware and plates and some ... Read more... View Source

Aevex CEO Roger Wells speaks on IPO and company direction on Bloomberg Technology. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Jill Wyant speaks with Ed Ludlow on how Madison Air pulled off the largest industrial IPO since 1999. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Unsupervised Robotaxi is now rolling out in Dallas & Houston. There is video of paid passengers in cars without human drivers. This is a surprise to skip over having supervised robotaxi. This should mean Tesla stock price will pop on Monday and likely start a long run upward. It seems Tesla is releasing the Robotaxi ... Read more... View Source

According to Nikkei Asia, even as suppliers ramp up DRAM production, manufacturers are only expected to meet 60 percent of demand by the end of 2027. SK Group chairman has even said that shortages could last until 2030. The world's largest memory makers - Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron - are all working to add new fabrication capacity, but almost none of it will be online until at least 2027, if no... View Source

Not everyone had the money for the original Neo Geo Advanced Entertainment System when it released in the '90s, but there's still a chance to experience it as an adult with disposable income. SNK and Plaion Replai, who is also behind the all-black remake of the Commodore 64, announced a faithful remake of the high-end retro console, called the Neo Geo AES+. To bring the original console into the m... View Source

A judge has granted the makers of the "ICE Sightings - Chicagoland" Facebook group and the Eyes Up app a preliminary injunction to stop the Trump administration from coercing platforms to take these projects down. Judge Jorge L. Alonso of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois found that the plaintiffs, Kassandra Rosado and Kreisau Group, are likely to suc... View Source

Apple has secured a major victory for its redesigned smartwatches as per the latest decision from the US International Trade Commission. The federal agency ruled against reinstating an import ban on Apple Watches, allowing the tech giant to continue selling its devices with a reworked blood-oxygen monitoring technology. The ITC decided to terminate the case and refer to a preliminary ruling from o... View Source

Capcom's new IP is a welcome throwback to simpler action games, but its story and themes are shockingly well-timed and refreshingly optimistic... View Source

The US Department of Justice is siding with X, as the social media platform owned by Elon Musk navigates a criminal investigation unfolding in France. As first reported by The Wall Street Journal, the Justice Department characterized the French probe as "an effort to entangle the United States in a politically charged criminal proceeding aimed at wrongfully regulating through prosecution the busin... View Source

In some Minneapolis neighborhoods, nearly every house has an anti-ICE sign. | Photo by Jack Califano / The Verge Jorge L. Alonso, a federal district court judge for the Northern District of Illinois, said that the Trump Administration violated the First Amendment when it pressured Facebook and Apple to remove ICE-tracking groups and apps. Judge Alonso granted the plaintiffs, Kassandra Rosado, who... View Source

The Artemis II astronauts are settling back into life on Earth, but we're not quite tired yet of hearing about their amazing journey. There's a new PBS documentary now streaming on YouTube that dives into the Artemis program and the latest efforts to send humans to the moon again. Also this week, NASA shared some awesome images of a comet flying into the sun, the nonprofit American River... View Source

The U.S. stock market has been one of the greatest engines of wealth creation in human history. From 1926 to 2025, it generated nearly $91 trillion in shareholder wealth. Most stocks are not wealth creators – they are wealth destroyers. Only 48% of stocks deliver positive returns over their lifetime. Just 41% outperformed Treasury bills. ... Read more... View Source

The Lyrids are back! Here's where to look and how to spot these shooting stars... View Source

From fancy OLED TVs to robot vacuums with arms, we tend to cover a lot of cool stuff here at The Verge that, unfortunately, often costs as much as a month’s rent (or more). But with the ongoing tariff situation in the US and a global memory shortage pushing up the cost of, well, everything, we’re well aware that not everyone can spend that kind of money right now. So, as w... View Source

Investigative journalist and Puck founding partner William D. Cohan and Quest Research and Investigations co-founder Tyler Maroney join David Gura and Christina Ruffini on Bloomberg This Weekend to discuss 'Finding Satoshi', a new documentary that chronicles their four-year investigation into the origins of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, whose identity remains secret. (Sour... View Source

For a few moments on April 6, the four Artemis 2 moon astronauts and the three crewmates aboard China's Tiangong space station were farther away from each other than any humans had ever been... View Source

Catch up on all the headlines with BTW. Boston Globe Reporter Emily Sweeney joins Lisa Mateo, Christina Ruffini and David Gura to dive into the accent taking over the internet. We've got the stories you may have missed on Bloomberg This Weekend. Watch the show LIVE every Saturday and Sunday morning. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

On Episode 206 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Dr. Brianne Suldovsky of Portland State University to discuss what happens after the discovery of an alien life form... View Source

Look out for earthshine on the crescent moon as it shines near Venus and the 1,000-strong Pleiades star cluster... View Source

Two years ago I attended a picturesque outdoor wedding in August where the hot and humid weather had guests occasionally ducking into their cars to enjoy a blast of AC. Dyson’s new $99.99 handheld fan would have provided some much-needed relief then, although I’m not sure I would have been comfortable powering it up during the service or reception. The HushJet Mini Cool is as slim and sleek as Dys... View Source

Artificial Intelligence in the beauty industry is becoming increasingly common, both in consumer-facing offerings and behind the scenes in research and development. Bloomberg This Weekend's Lisa Mateo dives into how AI is reshaping the industry. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

With a vacation comes a big choice: What game should I focus on during the trip? I thought about grinding out the harder levels of Super Meat Boy 3D, but I was looking for something more chill. I could have dabbled more with Slay the Spire II, but I already know that's a game I'll be playing for a long time. I wanted something that I could really get lost in and finish in a little over a week. Peo... View Source

SpaceX will launch Europe's life-hunting Rosalind Franklin rover toward Mars in 2028 — but not aboard the company's Starship megarocket... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 124, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, send me your Coachella fits, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about restaurant bread and GLP-1s and Lenny Rachitsky and Artemis II fashion, watching the new boy band doc because I will always watch a bo... View Source

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. Once again, there are some neat new games for you to check out this weekend. We've got a bunch of updates and announcements for upcoming titles to tell you about too.There have been a bunch of solid indie showcases lately (and highlights from another one to tell you about below). If you want to learn about a ton of other gam... View Source

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is poised to lift off for the third time ever on Sunday morning (April 19) — but for the first time with previously flown hardware. Here's how to watch it live... View Source

Everyone knows that new technologies can be really disruptive to the labor market, but eventually new jobs emerge and things come back into balance. And there is a sense in which many view AI with the same lens. Yes, there will be pain in some sectors, but then there will be productivity gains and new sources of demand and new opportunities for labor that we can’t conceive of yet. But could it be... View Source

In this live version of Masters In Business from Future Proof, Barry speaks with Carson Block, Founder and CEO of Muddy Waters Capital. They discuss the importance of fundamentals vs. technicals when it comes to short selling. They also discuss the downsides of the AI boom and what indicators may cause panic. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Take a group of runners circling a track at unique, constant paces. Answering the question of how many will always end up running alone, no matter their speed, has vexed mathematicians for decades... View Source

Everyone knows that new technologies can be really disruptive to the labor market, but eventually new jobs emerge and things come back into balance. And there is a sense in which many view AI with the same lens. Yes, there will be pain in some sectors, but then there will be productivity gains and new sources of demand and new opportunities for labor that we can't conceive of yet. But could it be... View Source

Maybe it really is a threat to work... View Source

Netflix shares tumbled the most in four years after the company gave a forecast for the second quarter that fell short of analysts’ expectations. Bloomberg's Lucas Shaw and Wedbush Securities Senior VP Alicia Reese discuss the "overhang" of the aborted Warner Bros. Discovery deal and more with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

China’s central bank governor Pan Gongsheng said artificial intelligence is driving a new wave of technological and industrial transformation that brings both opportunities and risks to the global economy... View Source

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is set to meet with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday, according to reports. The meeting comes amid concerns its artificial intelligence model, Mythos, could increase cybersecurity risks. Bloomberg’s Mike Shepard breaks joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

"Bloomberg Real Yield" highlights the market-moving news you need to know. Today's guests: BoFA Securities Senior US Rates Strategist Meghan Swiber, Neuberger CIO & Global Head of Fixed Income Ashok Bhatia, Goldman Sachs Asset Management Head of Multi Sector Fixed Income Investing Lindsay Rosner, and Corbin Capital Partners Deputy CIO, Credit John Cocke. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Sequoia Capital has raised about $7 billion for a new fund, according to people familiar with the discussions. It is the first fresh fundraising under the new leadership of one of the largest and most prominent venture capital firms. Bloomberg’s Natasha Mascarenhas discusses with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Some 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Hanoi, in Thai Nguyen province, a massive open-cut mine tears into the landscape. Ringed by dense, green hills, the vast, stepped crater is raw gray and brown. Along its sides, huge trucks creep along, while a murky pool lies stagnant at the bottom... View Source

The US Federal Aviation Administration has brought in Palantir Technologies Inc., Thales SA and Air Space Intelligence Inc. to compete on a new artificial intelligence tool for air traffic management, according to a person familiar with the matter... View Source

Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Netflix's lackluster forecast for the second quarter and co-founder Reed Hastings stepping down after 29 years at the company. Plus, the US government plans to make a version of Anthropic's Mythos model available to major federal agencies to tackle cyber risks despite the company's ongoing legal feud with the Pentagon. And, Sequoia Capital raises $7... View Source

Cerebras Systems Inc., an artificial intelligence chipmaker and data center operator, filed publicly for an initial public offering months after withdrawing a previous attempt to list... 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 BNY Wealth’s Sinead Colton Grant, BlackRock’s Nick Nefouse, Comscore’s Paul Dergarabedian, Former US Ambassador to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison, Permanent Portfolio’s Michael Cuggino, Veda Partners’ Henrietta Treyz, Miller Tabak’... View Source

OpenAI’s head of science initiatives and the leader for its Sora AI video team are both leaving the company, adding to a recent string of departures while the company reorganizes its sprawling product portfolio... View Source

The James Bond franchise has a long history of getting pop stars to record its theme songs (perhaps most memorably with Live and Let Die), and it looks like that tradition will now extend to video game adaptations about the fictional spy. IO Interactive has announced that Lana Del Rey co-wrote and performed the theme for 007 First Light, the developer's playable James Bond origin story... View Source

The new moon is the perfect time to spot faint constellations, galaxies and a quartet of planets in the dawn sky... View Source

Speculation the Iran war is poised to end sent risky assets surging anew, extending a month-long rally that’s lifted the S&P 500 Index to a succession of records, added around $12,000 to the price of Bitcoin and pushed up credit and gold. Olaolu Aganga, Citi Wealth Head of Portfolio Construction and Analytics joins Bloomberg Businessweek Daily to discuss. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Two different ways to tell the same story... View Source

Rillet CEO Nicolas Kopp & Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Alex Rampell discuss how Rillet helps firms optimize their finances and accounting using AI. They talk with Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on “The Close.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The crew of NASA's Artemis II mission have safely returned to Earth, but if your Moon fever has yet to break, or you're curious to get a big picture view of how the second of a planned five Moon missions was pulled off, PBS has a new documentary you'll want to watch. The hour-long Return to the Moon was produced for PBS' NOVA and aired on TV on April 15, but you can view the ep... View Source

Artistic rendering of the MDA Space CHORUS-C (right), RADARSAT-2 (centre), and CHORUS -X (left) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Earth observation constellation in orbit above Earth. NASA/CSDA NASA’s Earth Science Division (ESD) established the Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) program to explore the potential of commercial satellite data in advancing the agency’s Earth science research a... View Source

Last month, OpenAI gave up on its Sora video generation tool, and on Friday, the Sora team's leader, Bill Peebles, announced that he is leaving the company. OpenAI has been shifting its priorities as part of an effort to avoid "side quests," and Peebles' departure is just one of many recent changes as the company moves to focus more on coding and enterprise use. As part of a note Peebles posted on... View Source

Constellation Research CEO Ray Wang discusses the current AI landscape, why software is the ‘next piece to comeback,’ and the possibility of a SpaceX-Tesla merger. He talks with Katie Greifeld and Romaine Bostick on “The Close.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Tinder users who prove they're a real person by visiting an identity-verifying orb will soon be able to get five free boosts in the app - and it's just the latest service to embrace the orb. World, which was co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, initially tested Tinder verification using its facial scanning orbs through a pilot program in Japan last year. It's now expanding the service to "select m... View Source

Bloomberg's Erin Hudson joins Katie Greifeld on "Bloomberg Real Yield." Florida’s Broward County Public Schools is currently facing a budget shortfall of $100 million, the largest deficit caused by annual student enrollment declines. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The specter of price hikes caused by the current AI-driven demand for memory and storage appears to have convinced a fair share of people to buy a new computer. According to data analyzed by Counterpoint Research, global PC shipments grew around 3.2 percent year-over-year in Q1 2026, "driven by pre-emptive buying before memory-led price increases hit the retail level" and Microsoft forci... View Source

Business deals with Intel, Samsung and TSMC will boost Tesla and XAI supply and demand challenges. How will Terafab and Teralab fit into the plan. Accredited Investors can sign up for educational discussion and Q&A with Brian Wang https://forms.gle/sdDwj852Fnfxkkan8... View Source

The Trump administration has spent nearly two months fighting with AI company Anthropic. It's dubbed the company a "RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY" full of "Leftwing nut jobs" and a menace to national security. But some of the ice may reportedly be melting between the two, thanks to Anthropic's buzzy new cybersecurity-focused model: Claude Mythos Preview. Anthropic's relationship with the Pentagon sou... View Source

The venture capital market posted a record-shattering $267 billion the first quarter of 2026. But the data shows the landscape is almost entirely consumed by the AI race. Kyle Stanford, director of venture capital research at PitchBook, discusses the firm’s latest report with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Walt Disney Co. is partnering with movie theater chains on a new large-format screen certification that will roll out in time for the release of Avengers: Doomsday in December... View Source

Cursor, a leading artificial intelligence startup for coding, is in advanced talks with investors to raise about $2 billion in a funding round at a valuation of more than $50 billion, not including the investment, according to a person familiar with the matter... View Source

art002e013365 (April 7, 2026) – The Artemis II crew – (clockwise from left) Mission Specialist Christina Koch, Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen, Commander Reid Wiseman, and Pilot Victor Glover – pause for a group photo with their zero gravity indicator “Rise,” inside the Orion spacecraft on their way home. Following a swing around the far side of the Moon on April 6, 2026, the crew exi... View Source

With ‘Last Flag,’ lifelong gamers Dan and Mac Reynolds are trying to enter an overcrowded market... View Source

The size of waves on alien worlds will depend as much on the characteristics of the liquid as well as the gravity... View Source

Prediction market exchanges have created an environment where just about any piece of information is potentially monetizable: How well will BTS's new song perform this week? How hot will Los Angeles get? Will Donald Trump be impeached? Users can wager on all of that and, on some platforms, more gruesome and violent outcomes in the real world. The rapid rise and expansion of Polymarket and Kalshi h... View Source

Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei is scheduled to meet on Friday with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, according to people familiar with the matter, as the Trump administration seeks wider US government access to the company’s powerful new Mythos artificial intelligence model... View Source

I kind of wish it just took pictures. I've never been as charmed and frustrated by one gadget as I have with the Poetry Camera. It's a delightful object. White and cherry red with a color-matched woven strap, it looks playful and adorably lo-fi. If I saw it on a store shelf, I'd absolutely pick it up. But aside from obviously appealing, I'm not exactly sure what it is. I mean, I know what it is. I... View Source

The crew of Artemis II spoke with the media on Thursday, six days after returning to Earth following their mission around the Moon. After a news conference, the astronauts gave a handful of interviews, and Ars was able to speak with Orion's pilot, Victor Glover. Glover and Ars first connected nearly a decade ago as part of our homage to Apollo, The Greatest Leap. Glover now stands at the vanguard... View Source

,Among them, is a new tool called Concert Kit that could help bands and artists fight back against ticket scalping bots. The new feature relies on the revamped World ID, the orb-based verification system that scans users eyeballs and faces to create a "proof of human" signature that lives on users' mobile devices. "It's basically like a little human passport for the i... View Source

NASA and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management opened a new NASA Force website on Friday, April 17, 2026.Credit: NASA NASA and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) launched the NASA Force website on Friday, opening applications for roles aimed at recruiting the nation’s top engineers and technologists to support America’s air and space program... View Source

Perfect Lovers II | Photo: Nik Massey Vacuum cleaners, personal massagers, electronic baby rockers, and walking pads: These are the secondhand machines Rachel Youn sources to create their kinetic sculptures. Made with artificial flowers, metal hardware, and these used electronic components, each one possesses a humanlike presence. Slow Burn is made from an artificial orchid, a neck massager, bits... View Source

Alcoa Corp. is in advanced talks to sell a former smelter site in upstate New York to Bitcoin mining firm NYDIG as part of its plans to dispose of its dormant assets... View Source

Panic, the company behind the tiny and excellent Playdate console, is taking a stand on generative AI. The company has published an AI disclosure that says as of this month, the Playdate Catalog “will no longer accept titles that use ‘Generative AI’ for art, audio, music, text, or dialog.” Panic does allow for developers to use AI assistance for coding, but also says that “we will flag any title a... View Source

Dairy Queen is becoming the latest fast food chain to get in on AI, as it's bringing a chatbot to dozens of its drive-thrus across the US and Canada. It aims to help speed up drive-thru service and "encourage customers to add more food to their orders," according to The Wall Street Journal. Following a test last year, Dairy Queen is widely launching the tech built by Presto, an AI company that alr... View Source

India’s major financial technology firms are pushing Anthropic PBC to give them early access to Mythos, the artificial intelligence model that has sparked global fears about a new era of cyberattacks... View Source

NASA has confirmed the pending launch of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosalind Franklin rover, which is being sent to Mars. The current plan is to launch via a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center. The timing is still being worked out, but the space agency says this won't happen until at least 2028. This is a partnership between NASA and the ESA, with the European ag... View Source

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How do "For All Mankind"'s six decades of space exploration "history" compare with the real thing?... View Source

Some of us take a kind of “eat to live” rather than a “live to eat” approach to gadgets. They’re tools that help you get things done, not something you want to invest a lot of time or money in. If that’s you — and there’s no judgment here from a certifiable gadget nerd — then you can probably think of more worthwhile ways to spend $1,000 than on a phone. Budget phones to the rescue. These devices... View Source

Investors are getting picky, and ETFs reveal exactly where the money is going. Seana Smith, Senior Investment Strategist at Global X, joins Bloomberg Open Interest to break down why AI still dominates, how defense stocks are surging on global tensions, and why only a handful of companies will truly win the AI race. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

In hindsight, I suppose it was only a matter of time after Anthropic made Claude capable of generating charts and diagrams that the company would then begin offering a more robust image editor. Now, a little more than a month after that release, Anthropic has announced Claude Design, a new research preview that allows subscribers to use Claude to generate designs, prototypes, slides and more... View Source

The iPhone 17E is the best cheap iPhone, no surprises there. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Over the last few months, every phone maker under the sun has refreshed its lineups, especially at the affordable end, with no major budget phone launches now expected until next year. That made it the perfect time to go back and reassess The Verge's recommendations for the best budget phones you can... View Source

A Texas man has been charged with attempted murder of Sam Altman after he threw a Molotov cocktail at the tech CEO's home last week. Prosecutors say that the suspect was carrying a document warning that artificial intelligence companies would cause humanity’s “impending extinction.” Sarah Frier joins Stacey Vanek Smith and Max Chafkin on the Everybody's Business podcast to discuss why the backlash... View Source

The rules of Exit 8, both the cult indie game and the recent film adaptation, are simple: You're stuck in a subway station that loops around endlessly. If you notice any anomalies on your current loop, you turn around. If everything is the same, you keep going forward. Each successful guess takes you to a new entrance where the loop recurs, until you reach the end of the labyrinth, Exit 8 its... View Source

Our planet rests inside a magnetic cocoon filled with plasma – but it’s not always peaceful and quiet. Activity from the Sun can send waves through this space, and some of those disturbances can even reach Earth, affecting our power grid. Scientists are working to understand exactly how these waves behave, and the team behind NASA’s Heliophysics Audified: Resonances in Plasmas (HARP) citizen scien... View Source

The latest AirPods Pro $50 off at multiple retailers, which is their second-best price to date. From OLED TVs to smartphones, Best Buy’s Upgrade Sale has slashed prices on all kinds of tech, including a wide range of Apple devices. We’ve rounded up the best deals from the sale here, but one of the most notable is the AirPods Pro 3, which are down to $199.99 ($50 off) at Best Buy, with Amazon and W... View Source

Costs for child care in the US are high and so is demand. So why are so many businesses in the child care industry still struggling to survive? Planet Money co-host Mary Childs and contributor to the podcast, Alex Mayassi, join Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal to discuss how common complaints and concerns can be traced to specific economic phenomena or market structure issues. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Amidst ongoing legal trouble with several states and more than 100 pending lawsuits, this week Roblox announced a $12 million settlement with Nevada, allowing the company to avoid going to trial in this case.Following the agreement, Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford said "this settlement will create a safer environment for our children online, and I hope that it will serve as a bellwether fo... View Source

"This is no different from Comfort Women or the Holocaust," wrote South Korean President Lee Jae-myung on X last week, quoting a post with a video of Israeli Defense Forces soldiers throwing a body off a rooftop in Gaza. The president's post kicked off an internet firestorm for a thousand different reasons, not least because the video in question was misleadingly labeled. The quoted post reads "LI... View Source

Apple Inc. was upgraded to outperform from neutral by BNP Paribas, which said the iPhone maker can use the recent spike in memory prices as a way to increase its share of smartphone market share... View Source

Startup Donut Lab made a splash at the start of the year with some astonishing — and suspicious — claims about its solid state batteries. Now Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat reports an individual has filed a criminal whistleblower complaint against the company over those claims. Until recently, Lauri Peltola was listed as the Chief Commercial Officer at Nordic Nano — the firm reportedly contra... View Source

NASA/JPL-Caltech/IPAC/Hora et al. An observation made by NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) shows the chemical signatures of water ice (shown in bright blue) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (orange) in Cygnus X, one of the most active and turbulent regions of star birth in our Milky Way galaxy. The image was released o... View Source

Hubble images never fail to amaze... View Source

People keep trying to make Peloton more than what it is, when the product itself is enough. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. The camera zooms in on two well-formed cheeks clad in white shorts. These buns... View Source

Analysts expect BAE Systems Plc’s market value to top $100 billion for the first time as the UK defense contractor benefits from increased military spending by the US and Gulf states in the aftermath of the Iran war... View Source

Fast solar wind could spark geomagnetic storms tonight, pushing auroras into mid-latitudes... View Source

The founder of quantum computing startup Xanadu Quantum Technologies Ltd. became a billionaire in a matter of days after Nvidia Corp. threw its weight behind the emerging technology... View Source

TCL introduced its new flagship X11L SQD-Mini LED TV at CES 2026, and now a few months later, the company is ready to expand its lineup with more SQD-Mini LED models and its first RGB-Mini LED TV. All sizes of the TCL QM8L SQD-Mini LED TV are available now. Meanwhile, both the TCL QM7L SQD-Mini LED TVs and the RM9L RGB-Mini LED TVs are available to pre-order. SQD-Mini LED panels are TCL's latest i... View Source

The heat shield on Artemis 2's Orion capsule appears to have held up incredibly well during its scorching downward trip through Earth's atmosphere, mission commander Reid Wiseman said... View Source

In the latest sign of AI silly season, Allbirds, the shoe company, told the world it was now an AI company and briefly managed to septuple its stock price. The Newbird AI story is really just one of a bunch of things this week that made us wonder: have we reached the peak of AI, or at least a peak of AI? Verge subscribers, don't forget you get exclusive access to ad-free Vergecast wherever you get... View Source

Last year, Anthropic PBC chief Dario Amodei and a handful of executives traveled 8,000 miles from San Francisco to the Middle East. They were there to meet with some of the world’s most deep-pocketed investors, including Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund and Abu Dhabi-based MGX... View Source

Fire intensifies: “This is fine.” | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge All empires eventually fall, and it seems the creative software industry has collectively decided that Adobe's time has come. The Creative Cloud provider's suite of design tools have been considered the industry standard for decades - despite unpopular decisions to fully embrace generative AI and abandon software licenses... View Source

Pelgo says it can provide placement services quicker and cheaper using AI... View Source

So a shoe company turned into an AI company…. That’s it, that’s the joke. In this episode, Devindra chats with Engadget’s Daniel Cooper about Allbirds’ sudden transformation and what it says about the AI economy. Also, they chat about the Artemis II moon mission, Meta being warned about the dangers of facial recognition (again) and how teens think social media is really shaping them.Subscribe!iTun... View Source

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS changed significantly as it flew by the sun last fall, astronomers have discovered... View Source

Gregory Allen, senior adviser at CSIS Wadhwani AI Center, examines the capabilities of Anthropic’s Mythos model and how AI is being used by the US military to intensify strikes in the Iran war. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Chinese regulators fined leading food delivery platforms including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., PDD Holdings Inc. and Meituan for failing to filter out unqualified merchants... View Source

You’ve probably seen DJI’s stick vlogging cameras everywhere. At trade shows and tech events I’ve attended, it’s often the de facto video camera used by reporters and influencers alike. The Osmo Pocket 3 was easy to use, had sharp focus, potent image stabilization and handled vertical and horizontal video recording with minimal compromises. That was two years ago, so naturally it’s time for an upd... View Source

This weekend's scheduled Blue Origin rocket launch is rather momentous. Success would signal an end to SpaceX's monopoly on reusable orbital launch vehicles, and set up a three-way race to make that "No Service" indicator on your phone disappear forever. On Sunday morning, Jeff Bezos' massive New Glenn rocket is scheduled to launch with the first-stage booster that launched and landed on the progr... View Source

Weirdly, spaceships have no direct way to gauge their own speed. Luckily, we can use some physics tricks to figure it out... View Source

Edward Yardeni, president at Yardeni Research, runs down the points of optimism he sees for equity investors and what’s bringing back enthusiasm for the tech sector. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Things are gearing up in the development of the Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile, as its developers enter the final design phase before the project goes before Congress for funding... View Source

OnlyFans, the platform best known for adult content, is in advanced talks to sell a minority stake to Architect Capital in a deal that would value the British company at more than $3 billion... View Source

Tokyo is succeeding where the rest of the world has failed, reducing its reliance on Beijing for crucial rare earth elements—thanks to an enormous underwater deposit discovered on a remote island... View Source

OpenAI is rolling out an early version of an artificial intelligence model meant to speed up drug discoveries, joining a field of growing interest for tech companies eager to prove AI can pave the way for more scientific breakthroughs... View Source

Cloud Software Group Inc., formed after a leveraged buyout by Vista Equity Partners and Elliott Investment Management, has released several key earnings figures ahead of schedule amid fears around AI disruption... View Source

Slash Financial recently raised $100 million to expand its hyper-tailored banking services into new global markets and industries. With $300 million in ARR, Slash is using AI agents to automate back-office tasks like document parsing and dispute processing. Co-founder and CEO Victor Cardenas speaks with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A consortium including Bouygues Telecom, Iliad SA and Orange SA has entered exclusive negotiations to buy billionaire Patrick Drahi’s telecom company SFR... View Source

Netflix gave a forecast for the second quarter that fell short of analysts’ expectations, sending the shares tumbling in extended trading. The results are the first since Netflix walked away from a contentious battle for control of Warner Bros. in February. The streaming pioneer also announced that Chairman and co-founder Reed Hastings is stepping down from the board after 29 years to pursue phila... View Source

Casely has reannounced a recall of its Power Pods 5,000mAh MagSafe E33A charger after dozens of people were injured and one even killed by the defective devices, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (USCPSC) announced. It's recommended that you stop using the devices immediately, dispose of them safely and seek a replacement from the manufacturer.  A year ago, Casely and the USPSC publis... View Source

The NASA planned 2028 nuclear powered ion drive spacecraft, SR-1 Freedom will have a 20 kilowatt nuclear reactor. SR-1 Freedom will use 20-plus kilowatt fission reactor fueled by High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium and Uranium Dioxide, encased in a Boron Carbide Radiation Shield. This will power a xenon ion drive. Previous nuclear spacecraft designs involved more powerful ... Read more... View Source

Artificial intelligence startup Upscale AI is in talks to raise a new round of funding at a valuation of about $2 billion, according to people with knowledge of the efforts... View Source

Malaysia’s economy expanded at a slower-than-expected pace in the first quarter as the Middle East conflict began to weigh on the nation’s major industries, including manufacturing and services... View Source

A Chinese laser chipmaker surpassed Kweichow Moutai Co. to become the mainland’s highest-priced stock, highlighting a shift in investor appetite toward advanced technology and away from old economy leaders... View Source

Apple Inc.’s marketing executive in charge of the Apple Watch, AirPods, health and smart home initiatives said he’s retiring, marking a changing of the guard for a series of key product lines... View Source

Netflix Inc. gave a forecast for the second quarter that fell short of analysts’ expectations, sending the shares tumbling in extended trading... View Source

Jill Wyant, president and CEO of Madison Air, talks about the company’s IPO and the growing opportunity in data center infrastructure, including the buildout of Terafabs. The provider of ventilation and filtration systems raised $2.23 billion. Wyant speaks with Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Envision AESC, a major global manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and energy storage systems, is considering an initial public offering in Hong Kong as soon as this year, according to people familiar with the situation... View Source

Flow Capital Partners plans to offer its $150 million private credit fund on a Singapore-based blockchain platform by month end, positioning itself among the first Asian managers to tap growing stablecoin liquidity... View Source

The new AI model represents a sharp improvement from prior offerings, according to people who’ve tried it... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Anthropic's updated version of its AI model, Opus 4.7, released just a week after its limited release of Mythos. Plus, Elon Musk is kicking his Terafab plan into high gear, even as skepticism grows from the semiconductor industry. And, TSMC reports a big surge in profit and raises its revenue outlook for 2026, driven by strong demand for AI chips. (S... View Source

Mercor is promising to replicate most professional work. It was also co-founded by twentysomethings who previously never held a real job... View Source

EagleRock Land LLC filed for an initial public offering as the Permian Basin landowner and management company seeks to expand holdings and attract power generation, data centers and other industrial developments that could benefit from being near energy sources... View Source

Sequoia Capital, one of the largest and most prominent venture capital firms, has raised about $7 billion for a new fund according to people familiar with the discussions — the first fresh fundraising under Sequoia’s new leadership... View Source

YouTube is making some changes that might affect how you share videos from the mobile app. From the app, you can finally share videos from a specific timestamp, which will make it easier to point someone to a part of a video you might want them to see while you're on your phone. However, this change will replace the Clips feature that lets you make a shareable clip from a video. You'll still be ab... View Source

Manycore Tech Inc. built a billion-dollar valuation in China’s once-sizzling real estate market. Now, the software unicorn is betting on robotics and AI for its second act... View Source

Bluesky is once again having a wobble. The platform says some of its systems are down and that it’s “investigating an incident with service in one of our reginos” (that’s Bluesky’s typo, not mine). The issue appears to have started at 1:42AM ET and was still persisting as of 11AM.According to Bluesky’s status page, three servers were down, including one based in the US East region. The outages app... View Source

Dr. Bea Bakshi, CEO & Co-Founder of C the Signs joins Bloomberg Businessweek to discuss the future of cancer detection and how AI is part of the solution even in the early stages. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Oversight Board — the policy body Meta created to weigh its most impactful moderation rulings — has seen its role within Mark Zuckerberg's empire come into question due to shifting content policy priorities and dwindling investment. The Oversight Board has taken steps to formalize its long-contemplated desire to work with other companies, but Engadget has learned Meta has thus far declined to... View Source

Stop using this recalled wireless power bank immediately. | Image: Casely Casely first recalled over 429,000 of its 5,000mAh Power Pods wireless power banks in April 2025 following 51 reports of their lithium-ion batteries "overheating, expanding or catching fire," resulting in six minor burn injuries. Both the company and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (USCPSC) are reannouncing the sam... View Source

SpaceX has moved up a scheduled vesting date for shares awarded to employees to as soon as next week, according to people familiar with the matter, ahead of an IPO targeted to value the company at more than $2 trillion... View Source

The European Commission has proposed new measures for Google aimed at bringing the tech giant's search business into compliance with the Digital Markets Act. In order to allow third-party online search engines to be competitive with Google, the EC has recommended that Google permit those services to access its treasure trove of search engine data. As it stands, the proposal would require Goog... View Source

I was unsure if my parents would notice that the voice on the other end wasn't mine - or that it was mine, sort of, but it wasn't me. The voice said hello, asked my dad how he was doing, and asked again when he didn't respond quickly enough. "What is that, Gaby?" He realized something was wrong almost immediately. I explained I had tried to trick him and it clearly hadn't worked. "It didn't," he s... View Source

Elon Musk’s lieutenants have reached out to chip industry suppliers including Applied Materials Inc., Tokyo Electron Ltd. and Lam Research Corp. for his envisioned Terafab, early steps in an audacious and likely arduous attempt to break into the production of cutting-edge chips.  Staff working for the joint venture between Tesla Inc. and SpaceX have sought price quotes and delivery times for an ar... View Source

Netflix co-founder and current chairman Reed Hastings is leaving the streaming company’s board in June to focus on "his philanthropy and other pursuits," according to a shareholder letter released alongside Netflix's Q1 earnings. Hastings has served as chairman of Netflix's board since 2023, a role he assumed after stepping down as co-CEO and promoting Greg Peters in his place... View Source

The Artemis 2 astronauts said they gained a deeper understanding of their Orion capsule during their moon mission —and what they learned bodes well for future Artemis flights... View Source

Netflix co-founder and chairman Reed Hastings plans to leave the company after nearly 30 years. The news comes as part of Netflix's Q1 2026 earnings results released on Thursday, which says Hastings "will not stand for re-election to our Board when his current term expires at the Annual Meeting in June." After co-founding Netflix in 1997, Hastings served as CEO from 1999 to 2023, when he stepped d... View Source

Ross Gerber, Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment Management co-founder, president and CEO, says Netflix is in a phenomenal position and just "keeps printing money." Netflix gave a forecast for the second quarter that fell short of analysts expectations. Gerber speaks on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Meta is starting to test a long-overdue facelift for Threads on web. The company's head of Threads Connor Hayes showed off a new look for the web version of Threads that finally adds direct messaging and makes it easier to navigate between multiple feeds. The new layout adds a bunch of new shortcuts to the site's left rail, including saved posts, insights, activity, and the ability to mo... View Source

Connie Ballmer, wife of former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and co-founder of the Ballmer Group, has given $80 million to NPR. That's roughly seven years' worth of government funding ($11.2m) after Trump and Congress cut funds for public media, but only a fraction of NPR's full annual budget of $300 million. NPR may still cut jobs because the money has strings attached. The money is specifically "t... View Source