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Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey is proposing to spend $400 million to offset some of the Trump administration’s massive cuts to scientific research funding at Boston’s prestigious hospitals and at schools like Harvard University... View Source

Uber Eats has added a slate of AI features designed to, theoretically, help merchants earn new customers and ease the shopping experience for users. AI-enhanced food images are intended to make dishes more appealing by improving photos uploads. In the press release, Uber Eats shows an example in which pictures captured very close to the food are transformed into wider field-of-view shots of plated... View Source

Venus Aerospace has not publicly released detailed specific impulse (ISP) data for their Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) or the VDR2 (a rocket-based combined cycle engine integrating RDRE with ramjet modes) across Mach speeds. However, based on their claims of 10-15% efficiency gains over conventional rocket engines, partnerships with NASA and DARPA, and general RDRE ... Read more... View Source

Check out Scientific American’s fiction and nonfiction book recommendations for July... View Source

Epic has won again. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will not overturn the unanimous jury verdict from 2023 that Google’s app store and payments system had become illegal monopolies. Today, that appeals court affirmed the lower court’s decision in Epic v. Google, according to an full opinion you can read at the bottom of this story — and Google will now appeal to the Supreme Court, the company c... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google lost its appeal of a judge’s order requiring an overhaul of the technology giant’s app store policies in an antitrust case filed by Fortnite-maker Epic Games Inc... View Source

Over the past few weeks, thousands of video games have been banned, removed and delisted from Steam and Itch.io. The justifications for doing so have been almost comically vague, and at least one highly anticipated title is now unable to be sold despite containing nothing objectionable. It started in early July, when payment processors including Visa, Mastercard and PayPal established new regulati... View Source

Microsoft and Meta both beat earnings expectations by large amounts and the reason was because of AI helping their basic business. All of the forward guidance was also going to be superior because of AI. If they were not supply constrained growth would be even better. AI played a decisive role in the better-than-expected earnings ... Read more... View Source

A relatively small detector caught neutrinos from a nuclear reactor using a technique known as coherent scattering... View Source

Blue Origin is targeting Sunday (Aug. 3) for the launch of its next suborbital tourism mission, which will send crypto billionaire Justin Sun and five other people to the final frontier... View Source

Tesla’s newly-launched ride-hailing service in San Francisco isn’t quite ready for the “robotaxi” designation. After launching its robotaxi rides in Austin, Texas, with a “safety monitor” in the passenger seat last month, a video of Tesla’s service in San Francisco shows a vehicle arriving with a human at the wheel, as reported earlier by Business Insider. California requires companies to obtain t... View Source

The WHO believes one in five children in Gaza are acutely malnourished, with the health effects potentially lasting for generations... View Source

SpaceX halted the launch of a crew to the International Space Station about a minute before liftoff on Thursday citing unfavorable weather conditions... View Source

Thursday's Nintendo Direct showcased some interesting games, but none seemed more relaxing than one called Chillin' by the Fire. This is a campfire sim from Oink Games in which you'll build and grow a fire. You'll split and stack firewood, dry out wet logs before adding them to your blaze and fan the flames by blowing on 'em. It's important not to have too little or t... View Source

The immune system senses damage to cell membranes caused by pore-forming proteins and mounts a response... View Source

SpaceX scrubbed the launch of its Crew-11 astronaut mission for NASA just a minute before liftoff today (July 31) after clouds intruded... View Source

Microsoft’s stock price has risen so much today that it has passed a $4 trillion market valuation for the first time in its 50-year history. The software maker is the second company to be valued at $4 trillion, after Nvidia reached a market cap of over $4 trillion earlier this month. Microsoft has reached this milestone thanks to better-than-expected earnings, and the company reporting its Azure r... View Source

A notorious Russian hacking group is impersonating a prominent cybersecurity firm and using the country’s internet providers to spy on foreign embassies, according to a report published Thursday by Microsoft Corp... View Source

The well-regraded 8BitDo Ultimate 2C controller is on sale for just $18 via Amazon. This is nearly 40 percent off and a record-low price. Typically, this controller doesn't go any lower than $25, so this is one heck of a deal. There's one major caveat. The deal only applies to the pink colorway, which may not be everyone's bag. It looks pretty good, though, as you can see below. The Ultimate 2C is... View Source

The UE Wonderboom 4 is on sale for $79.99 ($20 off). Believe it or not, summer break is winding down and it’s almost time to head back to school. It’s sad, I know, but look at the bright side: retailers like Amazon are using the occasion as an excuse to launch yet another sale. We’re not complaining, mainly because the deals encompass a wide range of solid dorm essentials, some of which include a... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday said that US sales of its latest, high-end foldable phone are outpacing the prior model by 50%, a sign that the category is establishing at least some momentum with consumers... View Source

The iconic tower defense game Plants vs. Zombies is getting an HD remaster. Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted heads to the Switch and Switch 2 on October 23, as revealed during this morning's Nintendo Direct livestream. As the name suggests, it's a remake of the very first PvZ game, going all the way back to 2009. This is the first time we're seeing a version of the original title on a... View Source

About nine million years ago, a hybridization involving the lineage of another farmers market star gave rise to the modern-day cultivated potato... View Source

The Thumby Color and Thumby handhelds. It's always a risk betting on new video game hardware from a little-known company: what if game developers never show up? But the $50 Thumby Color, on sale this week, is an easier sell - the two-inch handheld is cute as a button, fits on your keychain, lets aspiring programmers build and publish games right on the web, and I'm finding it so much easier to pla... View Source

The Agnelli family’s love affair with trucks began with the Fiat 24 HP that rolled off its Turin factory floor in 1903... View Source

Lyft has received the required regulatory clearance to finalize its acquisition of the European app-based taxi company Freenow. First announced back in April, Lyft’s approximately $197 million agreement with BMW and Mercedes-Benz allows the company to expand outside of North America for the first time. Freenow’s service will continue to operate as normal, but Bloomberg reports that users will... View Source

Personally, I like the white sunglasses look. It was a sweltering Sunday in Brooklyn. Instead of being wasteful and spending $10 on a five-minute Uber, I decided to walk the 20 minutes to a cutesy Japanese stationery cafe with an even cutesier name. Despite the 85 percent humidity, my vanity demanded I wear a full face of makeup with a snatched nose contour. Sweat was leaking out of every pore, me... View Source

Roblox Corp. shares hit a record high after the popular video-game company reported daily active users and bookings in the second quarter that beat analysts’ expectations. Roblox’s record-breaking game Grow a Garden spurred much of the growth, attracting 22 million concurrent users in July... View Source

The Sculptor galaxy is a treasure trove of information that astronomers around the world cannot wait to pick apart... View Source

Leaked images of the base Pixel 10 lineup. We’ve already seen what every Pixel 10 model looks like, and now we might know the pricing, too. A new leak from Android Headlines suggests the base Pixel 10 with 128GB of storage will have the same $799 starting price as its predecessor, while the rest of the lineup isn’t seeing any major changes, either. The price of the Pixel 10’s 256GB model also appe... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Min Jeong Lee explains why the Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten is launching an AI assistant... View Source

Google has introduced a new AI model called AlphaEarth Foundations that it says can function like a "virtual satellite." The model uses a system called "embedding," which works by taking big volumes of pubic information from various sources every day, such as optical satellites, radars and climate simulations, and then combining them all together. It then divides lands and coas... View Source

Technicians have successfully installed two sunshields onto NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s inner segment. Along with the observatory’s Solar Array Sun Shield and Deployable Aperture Cover, the panels (together called the Lower Instrument Sun Shade), will play a critical role in keeping Roman’s instruments cool and stable as the mission explores the infrared universe. To view this video... View Source

Venus reaches its highest altitude above the eastern horizon in 2025 on Aug. 1... View Source

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Alex Heath, your Thursday episode guest host and deputy editor at The Verge. Today, I’m joined by Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter. We’re talking about the AI talent wars and why some researchers are suddenly getting traded like they’re NBA superstars. If you’ve been paying attention at all to the AI industry this past month, you’ve likely s... View Source

Figma Inc. shares are set to begin trading Thursday after the design and collaboration software company and some of its backers raised $1.2 billion in one of the year’s most anticipated US initial public offerings... View Source

The Nintendo Switch was a great place to play Persona games, and it looks like the outgoing console has passed on the torch to its successor, with last year's Persona 3 Reload kicking things off when it comes to Switch 2 on October 23.  Reload is a full remake of 2006's Persona 3 (later ported to the PSP as Persona 3 Portable), which Engadget's Mat Smith called "a gorgeous... View Source

About two years ago, we ran an article in which Verge staffers talked about their favorite backpacks and other bags. It’s time for a new one, and so we asked the staff to tell us about their favorite travel packs, day-to-day bags, and other ways to carry stuff around. Here’s what they told us. Backpacks Tom Bihn Synik 30 Where to Buy: $345 at Tom Bihn I like to travel light, but as a dad, that’s a... View Source

Comcast Corp. reported better than expected sales and profit, even as it continued to lose internet and cable-TV customers... View Source

Brilliant Labs is the startup behind Frame, the open-source smart glasses designed for hackers and other creative types. Today, the company is launching Halo, a new pair of glasses that, predictably for the age we live in, are being sold on the back of their AI features. Halo is a wayfarer-style pair (compared to the Panto-styled Frame) and, if you’re a spectacles wearer, you’ll be able to get pre... View Source

View of the NASA Glenn Research Center hangar from the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport runway during a testing flight on Thursday, June 13, 2024. The Operations and Integration Building sits to the hangar’s right.Credit: NASA/Sara Lowthian Hanna NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland is seeking proposals for the use of its historic aircraft hangar, along with a parking lot, tarmac, and... View Source

A possible planet may be carving the disc around the young star... View Source

Nvidia is releasing a new GeForce Game Ready Driver today that expands support for Windows 10 devices, alongside some games and G-Sync displays. Windows 10 Game Ready Driver support will now be available for GeForce RTX GPUs until October 2026, a year beyond when Microsoft is planning to stop supporting the operating system on October 14th, 2025. The expanded support from Nvidia will ensure that u... View Source

Artificial intelligence startup Anaconda Inc. has raised a new funding round that values the company at $1.5 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter... View Source

A new cybersecurity "breach" has revealed the personal information of various celebrities, and while it won't let you steal their identities, it will allow you to... judge them. The "Panama Playlists" details the Spotify song choices of notable people ranging from Vice President JD Vance to talk show host Seth Meyers to tech bros like Palmer Luckey. And technically, it was... View Source

A lighting flash that spanned from East Texas to an area near Kansas City in 2017 is officially the longest lightning strike ever measured, according to the World Meteorological Organization... View Source

Spock may be renowned for his impeccable logic, but "Strange New Worlds" has offered a glimpse of the Vulcan's surprisingly complicated love life... View Source

It’s been a little over a month since the Switch 2 launched, and Nintendo’s ready to share more of the games coming to the console. Today’s Nintendo Direct presentation will be a short one at only 25 minutes long, and focused exclusively on third-party games. It’s likely that Hades 2 will make an appearance. The game, out on PC in early access, got a huge update recently, and it... View Source

Klarna Group Plc is considering reviving its potential New York initial public offering as soon as September, people familiar with the matter said, following a recent surge in fintech stock prices and strong debuts of recent US listings... View Source

DJI is finally taking on rising rival Insta360 with its first panoramic action camera, the Osmo 360. The company dug into its deep engineering toolkit in an effort to one-up the competition with features like a new sensor design, up to 8K 50 fps 10-bit log recording and a smaller, lighter body. It also matches or beats its rival in other areas, with similar battery life and superior low-light capa... View Source

Meet the astonishing phenomenon of megaflash lightning... View Source

The Osmo 360 is DJI’s first 360-degree action camera. | Image: DJI DJI has announced the company’s first 360-degree action camera designed to compete with the Insta360 X5 and the aging GoPro Max (which the company is planning to replace soon). The new DJI Osmo 360 slightly edges out the X5’s recording capabilities by capturing 8K videos at 50fps instead of 30fps, and features a design that’s both... View Source

Plans to reduce staff spiked in July to a level that was well above the average for the month since the pandemic, with technology firms leading sectors trimming their workforce, according to data from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas... View Source

As Earth spins through space, its rate of rotation changes. Here’s why... View Source

Lyft Inc. has gained the necessary regulatory clearance to complete its acquisition of European taxi app Freenow, setting the stage for the US rideshare company to expand its operations into Europe... View Source

In examples like those garlic knots on the bottom left, Uber Eats’ AI would have to generate sections of the food itself. The menus on your next Uber Eats order may be embellished using generative AI. The food delivery service is rolling out new features that aim to help businesses advertise and communicate with customers, which include  AI additions to menu descriptions, food photos, and rev... View Source

The disease has claimed the lives of 12 people in the country this year, with the virus continuing to spread rapidly... View Source

Podcasts hosted by venture capitalists set the narrative in tech, changing the way that insiders—and everyone else—learn about the world of startups... View Source

Apple Inc.’s earnings report is unlikely to give investors the catalyst they’ve been looking for to revive the iPhone maker’s struggling stock price... View Source

The search for life beyond the solar system is heating up. Though biosignatures around super-Earth K2-18b remain unconfirmed, the JWST has found the planet could be a water-rich ocean world... View Source

Microsoft first started using the "Xbox PC" term in a blog post announcing the Gears of Wars remaster in early May. It was a new branding effort designed to signal that games are available on PC through its own Xbox PC app and store. The Xbox PC branding didn't last long though, as Microsoft has now started using "Xbox on PC" instead. Which one is it, Microsoft? The Xbox PC branding has been picke... View Source

Apple Inc.’s iPhone exports to the US from India will remain untouched by President Donald Trump’s latest 25% tariffs on the South Asian nation, for now... View Source

We all have so many gadgets now that we use and take with us regularly, and there's a good chance that at least a few of yours support wireless charging. Whether its your phone, wireless earbuds, smartwatch or all three of those things, you can power them up cord-free using a good wireless charger. And if you do plan to rely on wireless power-ups for your most-used devices, a multi-device wireless... View Source

South Africa’s top court upheld Vodacom Group Ltd.’s appeal against another court’s ruling that it pay a former employee billions of rands in compensation for an idea to develop a popular call-back service that he proposed more than two decades ago... View Source

Chinese authorities summoned Nvidia Corp. to discuss alleged security risks related to its H20 chips, casting doubt over the domestic business of the world’s most valuable company weeks after co-founder Jensen Huang met senior officials in Beijing... View Source

Tokyo Electron Ltd. slashed its full-year outlook below estimates after Chinese chipmakers slowed down efforts to stock up on equipment... View Source

Whether you're listening to playlists on your daily commute or zoning out with a podcast at home, wireless headphones can make your audio experience much more comfortable. With no cords to untangle or get caught on your bag, they’re a great pick for anyone who wants convenience without compromising on sound quality. If comfort and immersive audio are high on your priority list, over-ear wireless h... View Source

UK power generator Drax Group Plc will extend its share buyback program by £450 million ($597 million) over three years after it paused two major investments... View Source

The US sealed a trade deal with Pakistan as their officials wrapped up talks in Washington, agreeing to develop oil reserves... View Source

Sam Altman OpenAI will expand its Stargate project to Europe with the construction of a new data center in Norway... View Source

EchoStar Corp., the broadband company that’s missed debt payments, is being pushed by federal regulators to sell some of its airwaves to address concerns it has failed to put valuable slices of wireless spectrum to use... View Source

Qualcomm Inc., the biggest maker of chips that run smartphones, fell in late trading after reporting lackluster growth in that market, fueling concerns that tariffs will take a toll on the industry... View Source

Arm Holdings Plc, which provides the most widely used technology in computing chips, gave a lower-than-expected profit forecast for the current period after ramping up spending on new products... View Source

The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-11 mission are scheduled to launch toward the International Space Station today (July 31), and you can watch the action live... View Source

Grab Holdings Ltd. reported quarterly sales that beat analysts’ estimates, a sign of sustained demand for ride-hailing and delivery services in a Southeast Asian economy rattled by global trade tensions... View Source

Chinese-founded startup Manus is rolling out a feature that allows broad research by assigning tasks to scores of AI agents working in tandem, in potentially the biggest update since launching its signature artificial intelligence platform in March... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. is taking advantage of its lucrative advertising business and stepping up spending next year, with executives saying now is the time to seize on investment opportunities in artificial intelligence... View Source

Microsoft Corp. said it will spend more than $30 billion in the current quarter to build out the data centers powering its artificial intelligence services... View Source

Samsung have started earlier than TSMC going to 2 nanometer GAA process chips. They will start mass production late in 2025. Elon Musk and Tesla was using semiconductor processes one generation or so behind Nvidia for the Tesla Dojo chip. Samsung has challenges with lower yields (around 40%, compared to TSMC’s reported 60%). They have ... Read more... View Source

EBay Inc. shares jumped about 10% after the company projected sales that topped analysts’ estimates, suggesting optimism for continued consumer resilience at a time of shifting US tariff proposals... View Source

SpaceX Starlink launched T-mobile satellite across the USA. This will enable millions of people to use Starlink anywhere for $10 per month. Starlink will get about half of the money from Tmobile and many other cellphone partners. Internet and voice everywhere is coming by the end of year. This will matter as it grows to ... Read more... View Source

Figma Inc. and some of its backers raised $1.2 billion in an initial public offering, pricing its shares above the marketed range, in one of the most in-demand listings of the year... View Source

FuriosaAI Inc., the Seoul-based semiconductor startup seeking to challenge Nvidia Corp., secured $125 million in a financing round to accelerate production of its artificial intelligence chip... View Source

Mark Zuckerberg’s AI hiring spree is costing a lot of money. His investors don’t care. Meta’s stock price shot up over 10 percent on Wednesday after the company reported better-than-expected earnings. Revenue generated in the second quarter was $47.5 billion, up 22 percent from a year ago. Daily users across Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp grew to almost 3.5 billion. Meta also warned Wa... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co.’s semiconductor division reported profit that fell far short of expectations, reflecting a deepening crisis at the world’s largest memory chipmaker... View Source

Chinese e-commerce firm JD.com Inc. offered to acquire Ceconomy AG in a deal that would value the German electronics retailer at about €2.2 billion ($2.5 billion)... View Source

A new set of rules governing stablecoin issuers in Hong Kong takes effect on Friday as Asian authorities step up regulatory efforts in response to President Donald Trump’s campaign to stoke the growth of tokens pegged to the US dollar... View Source

Earlier today, Mark Zuckerberg shared a rambling memo outlining his vision to build AI "superintelligence." In the memo, Zuckerberg hinted that the pursuit of more powerful AI might require the company to be more selective in what it open sources. Citing "safety concerns" he wrote that Meta would need to be "rigorous" about such decisions. The line stood out to many a... View Source

Microsoft Corp. is set to become the second company in the world to reach a $4 trillion market capitalization after reporting quarterly earnings that beat Wall Street’s expectations, sending the stock soaring in extended trading Wednesday... View Source

TikTok’s latest answer to its addictiveness is gamified mindfulness tools. The app’s new Well-being Missions let you earn badges for completing challenges related to balanced digital habits. To be clear, mindfulness and dopamine-seeking mini-games are a contradictory pair. But hey, at least it’s healthier than doomscrolling. The first batch of TikTok’s "short, engaging missions" focuses... View Source

The James Webb Space Telescope's investigations of the planetary nebula NGC 6072 suggest a second star played a hand in sculpting the death of the primary star... View Source

AbbVie Inc. is in talks to acquire mental health therapeutics company Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals in a deal highlighting growing takeover interest in the sector, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Google's upcoming Pixel 10 may support wireless Qi2 charging natively (without a case), which would make it the first Pixel model and one of the few Android phones to do so. A new image from mega-leaker Evan Blass shows a Qi2 charger attached to the back of a naked Pixel 10 device, meaning it likely has the magnets required to support the fast-charging system. Rumors bubbled up last month tha... View Source

Mission managers with NASA and SpaceX polled 'go' to proceed with a launch attempt of the Crew-11 astronaut mission to the ISS on Thursday (July 31)... View Source

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday that will suspend the de minimis exemption — which allows packages with goods valued less than $800 to enter the US duty-free — for all countries. Earlier this year, Trump ended the de minimis exemption for goods from China and Hong Kong. The White House says the change goes into effect on August 29th. Per the executive order, for the n... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow speak with the heads of Palo Alto Networks and CyberArk about the $25 billion acquisition deal the cybersecurity companies have reached. Plus, investors look for signs of growth and payoff from AI spending as big tech companies prepare to release earnings. And Anthropic nears a fundraising deal that would value the AI startup at $170 billion. (Source: Bloomb... View Source

President Donald Trump's latest economic move is to halt the de minimis exemption, a provision that made international shipments of low-value items cheaper. When the exemption ends on August 29, shipments valued at or under $800 will be subject to duty fees when sent by any carrier other than the international postal network, no matter what country they are coming from. According to the White... View Source

The lawsuits offer a closer look at the safety environment at SpaceX... View Source

Dropbox is discontinuing its password manager. The tool, Dropbox Passwords, will be discontinued on October 28th, and the company is recommending that you transfer your passwords to another app like 1Password ahead of that date. The company will shut down Dropbox Passwords in phases. Starting August 28th, Dropbox Passwords will be view-only from both the mobile app and the browser extension, meani... View Source

Sachin Dev Duggal helped Builder.ai reach a $1.5 billion valuation. Then its board ousted him amid allegations of inflated revenue and the startup filed for bankruptcy... View Source

Spotify is introducing new requirements to confirm the ages of users in the UK trying to access explicit content. The streaming platform is implementing a facial scan process in partnership with Yoti, which also provides its services to Instagram. UK Spotify users may be prompted to perform this age check when they try to view or listen to age-restricted content. This type of approach to checking... View Source

From rocketships and exoplanets, to FTL and black holes, there's something for every space fan in Marvel's "The Fantastic Four: First Steps."... View Source

Have you ever wondered what bops powerful figures are listening to on Spotify? You'd be amazed what you can get with a profile search - but just in case you want them all in one place, there's the Panama Playlists, a newly published collection of data on the musical listening habits of politicians, journalists, and tech figures, as curated by an anonymous figure. The site appears to have data for... View Source

Microsoft Corp. said its Azure cloud-computing unit generated more than $75 billion during the 2025 fiscal year, the first time the company has put a dollar figure on a critical business it has spent more than a decade building... View Source

Fable, a startup designing tools to generate animated TV shows from scratch, is launching an AI-powered streaming service this week, Variety reports. The service is called Showrunner, and it will allow subscribers to generate scenes, view content created for Fable's in-house AI-generated animated shows and even insert themselves into the animations they generate. Showrunner is launching in al... View Source

You’ll have to wait a big longer for the Analogue 3D, but 8BitDo’s N64 controller remake is now avialable. | Image: 8BitDo Analogue’s 4K remake of the Nintendo 64 has been delayed again and again due to the US tariff situation. But at least you can get 8BitDo’s updated take on the N64 controller, which was announced alongside the Analogue 3D, while you wait. You can get one through Amazon in white... View Source

A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED... View Source

Robinhood Markets Inc. posted second-quarter revenue that beat Wall Street estimates, boosted by strength in cryptocurrency trading... View Source

Of all the new iOS 26 features that Apple previewed at WWDC in June, AirPods updates were only briefly mentioned. Studio-quality audio recording and improved call clarity got top billing, while the addition of a camera remote control was also quickly discussed. However, when the beta software arrived last week, it turned out there were actually more features than described at the event, making thi... View Source

NASA's next moon astronauts underscored the importance of their upcoming Artemis 2 mission despite a turbulent time for the space agency full of budget cuts and workforce reductions... View Source

Microsoft just posted the fourth and final quarter of its 2025 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $76.4 billion in revenue and a net income of $27.2 billion during Q4. Revenue is up 18 percent, and net income has increased by 24 percent. Like clockwork, cloud services are the strong point of Microsoft’s revenue this quarter. Azure revenue grew 39 percent year-over-year, and Microsof... View Source

Surge AI, a leading data-labeling startup, is in talks to raise about $1 billion in its first round of funding at a valuation of at least $25 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter... View Source

LinkedIn quietly changed the language of its hateful content policy this week. The update, the company's first change in three years according to the site's own changelog, removed a line that stated the company prohibits the misgendering and deadnaming of transgender individuals. The change, which was first noted by the organization Open Terms Archive, was the only modification to the "hateful and... View Source

5 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA has released a new proposal opportunity for industry to tap into agency know-how, resources, and expertise. The Announcement of Collaboration Opportunity (ACO), managed by the Space Technology Mission Directorate, enables valuable collaboration without financial exchanges between NASA and industry partners. Instead... View Source

Ziff Davis, the media conglomerate that owns outlets like CNET, ZDNET, PCMag, and Mashable is laying off 15 percent of its unionized workforce, for a total of 23 people. The majority of layoffs are coming from CNET, where 19 people will lose their jobs — even as Ziff Davis goes on a shopping spree. The layoffs will hit CNET coverage areas like the finance, broadband, and sleep beats, as well as th... View Source

Buyout firm Thoma Bravo has agreed to acquire a stake in Trading Technologies International Inc., which plans to use the additional resources to scour for acquisitions... View Source

It was easy to view Substack's 2023 Nazi controversy as a kicked can that could turn up again. Well, white supremacist content led to another headache for the company this week. User Mag reported on Tuesday that the app sent a push alert to some users promoting a Nazi newsletter. The company told Engadget the notification was an "extremely offensive and disturbing" error. The Substack newsletter i... View Source

The U.S. Space Force plans to launch the eighth mission of its mysterious X-37B space plane on Aug. 21 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The flight will study experimental technology in orbit... View Source

Elon Musk’s Boring Company has announced plans to dig tunnels under Nashville, creating a loop that will connect the city’s downtown with the Nashville International Airport. The Boring Company says it will begin construction “immediately” following approval and expects the first 10-mile phase to be operational as early as next year, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. In 2021, The Boring Company o... View Source

Earlier this month, buzzy consumer tech startup Nothing thought it was kicking off its transformation from an eccentric gadget brand into something much bigger. Instead, its latest device — the Phone 3 — has been mired in controversy among the same customers who rallied behind the company’s past products... View Source

Dropbox is saying goodbye to its password manager after five years of service. This leaves current customers in a lurch, as the company has also announced that users only have a few months to extract all of their data. This discontinuation will happen in phases, but October 28 is the day Dropbox Passwords will be entirely shuttered. On August 28, the platform will become view-only in both the mobi... View Source

An impressive combination of power and efficiency. | Image: DJI Starting today, DJI’s Amflow electric mountain bike range is available to buy in the United States. It comes over a year since the showcase for DJI’s very impressive Avinox drive system was launched in Europe, sending shockwaves through the industry and leaving stalwarts like Bosch and Specialized struggling to respond. What... View Source

Ambiq Micro Inc. shares pared early gains after more than doubling in early trading, a day after the maker of ultra-low power semiconductors for AI applications raised $96 million in an upsized initial public offering... View Source

Skechers just released a helicopter parent's dream shoe. Find My Skechers is a new line of children's shoes that encourages parents to hide an Apple AirTag under the heel. If tracking them on Snapchat wasn't enough and tracking their smartwatch didn't quite cut it, now you can hide an AirTag on their person. Remember running around the neighborhood with your friends and being t... View Source

The immediate harms of extreme heat are well documented, but a growing body of research suggests that heatstroke may have long-term health effects throughout the body... View Source

NASA astronaut Kathleen “Kate” Rubins has retired from the space agency after 16 years, two missions on the International Space Station, four spacewalks and 300 days in space... View Source

Roblox and Fortnite are two of the biggest games around, and a huge part of why is because they aren't just one game: instead, they're vast platforms where you can party up with your friends, dress up in ridiculous digital outfits, and quickly jump from one experience to another. Back in the day, Fortnite copied PUBG by making a battle royale, and now, PUBG is mimicking Fortnite by trying to becom... View Source

On this week’s Trumponomics, we discuss how the administration’s vision risks isolating the US from the very global tech ecosystem it’s trying to dominate... View Source

DJI's Amflow electric mountain bikes are now available to buy in the US, one full year after they made their way to European customers. These bikes include the company's proprietary and impressive Avinox drive system, which is built around a 1000W motor capable of producing 120Nm of max torque. This system is also light and compact, allowing for efficiently-designed bikes like the Amflow... View Source

On July 25th, the UK became one of the first countries to widely implement age verification. Its Online Safety Act requires sites hosting porn and other content deemed "harmful" - including Reddit, Discord, Grindr, X, and Bluesky - to verify that users are over the age of 18. The early results have been chaotic. While many services have complied, some have pulled out of the country rather than fac... View Source

After more than a decade of development, NASA's science leadership traveled to India this week for the launch of the world's most expensive Earth-observation satellite. The $1.5 billion synthetic aperture radar imaging satellite, a joint project between NASA and the Indian space agency ISRO, successfully launched into orbit on Wednesday aboard that nation's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle,... View Source

Leading US technology companies, including Amazon.com Inc., Anthropic, Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and OpenAI Inc., have pledged to work with health systems and the Trump administration to make the nation’s fragmented medical data more useful for patients and providers... View Source

The next season of Apex Legends kicks off on August 5, and it will see the arrival of a new, permanent game mode. Respawn says it built Wildcard as a faster-paced alternative to the core battle royale mode. For instance, when you take out an enemy, they won't leave behind a death box. Instead, their loot will scatter around them, making it easier for you to spot and pick up an item you n... View Source

Martian glaciers are mostly pure ice across the Red Planet, suggesting they might potentially be useful resources for any explorers that might land there one day, a new study finds... View Source

Google will soon cast an even wider net with its AI age estimation technology. After announcing plans to find and restrict underage users on YouTube, the company now says it will start detecting whether Google users based in the US are under 18. Age estimation is rolling out over the next few weeks and will only impact a “small set” of users to start, though Google plans on expanding it more widel... View Source

The founders of a cryptocurrency mixing service admitted helping launder more than $100 million in proceeds from illegal darkweb marketplaces and fraud schemes, as the developer of a similar platform awaits a jury verdict in the same court... View Source

Mark Zuckerberg has spent the last several months and several billion dollars recruiting prominent AI researchers and executives for a new "superintelligence" team at Meta. Now, the Meta CEO has published a lengthy memo that attempts to lay out his big plan for using the company's vast resources to create "personal superintelligence." In the memo, which reads more like a m... View Source

Researchers and therapists explore the mental health benefits of tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons... View Source

I reported last week that OpenAI is planning to launch GPT-5 in early August, as part of an effort to simplify and combine its large language models. Just a day after my report, references to GPT-5 were spotted inside Microsoft's Copilot web app, hinting at a new smart mode. Sources familiar with Microsoft's AI plans tell me that the company is currently testing this new smart mode for Copilot acr... View Source

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YouTube will be included in Australia's social media ban for children under 16, as reported by Bloomberg. The country's Labor government said that the site will be subject to the same rules as other leading platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X when the legislation goes into effect this December. Australia had planned to exempt YouTube from the forthcoming social media ban, on... View Source

2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA/Lori Losey The best way to solve a mystery is by gathering evidence and building a case. That’s exactly what NASA researchers are doing with a series of research flights aimed at advancing a sensor for supersonic parachutes. The clues they find could help make these parachutes more reliable and safer for delivering... View Source

Russia's magnitude-8.8 earthquake spawned serious tsunami warnings, but waves have been moderate so far. Here's the geological reason why... View Source

Efrain Morales captured the image of Titan's shadow darkening Saturn on July 18, while the gas giant was over 800 million miles from Earth... View Source

The Find My Skechers line keeps Apple AirTags secure and out of sight. | Screenshot: Skechers If you’re a parent with kids in school or who are independently exploring your neighborhood for the first time, there’s a good chance you’ve considered stashing a tracker somewhere on their person for added peace of mind. Skechers is making that a little easier with a new line of sneakers for kids that fe... View Source

TikTok is rolling out several new safety features, including a more expansive version of its community notes-style product, as the broader social networking industry is under fire for not doing enough to protect mental health... View Source

A group of Cornell computer scientists has unveiled what they believe could be a new tool in the fight against AI‑generated video, deepfakes and doctored clips. The watermarking technique, called “noise‑coded illumination,” hides verification data in light itself to help investigators spot doctored videos. The approach, devised by Peter Michael, Zekun Hao, Serge Belongie and assistant professor Ab... View Source

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Artwork from Pokémon TCG Pocket’s Wisdom of Sea and Sky expansion that has now been removed from the game. | Image: The Pokémon Company While you can now start collecting Pokémon TCG Pocket’s Johto-themed Wisdom of Sea and Sky expansion, two of the set’s rarest cards are being changed in response to concerns about art theft. Soon after dataminers began posting images of Wisdom of Sea a... View Source

Hackers targeted South Africa’s Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation in recent attacks on Microsoft Corp.’s SharePoint customers... View Source

In just a matter of weeks — if it sticks to its usual schedule — Apple will announce its newest collection of smartphones: the iPhone 17 lineup. And while we got a glimpse of what's to come on the software side of things during last June's WWDC event, we don't yet know what the new iPhones will look like, and what new features they'll offer. However, there have been several lea... View Source

Science Communication Intern – Goddard Space Flight Center Laine Havens — now a senior at Cornell University and three-time NASA intern — grew up with a deep curiosity about how the universe works and a family that encouraged her to explore it. Throughout her childhood, Laine was immersed in science and exposed to wonderful science communicators by her mother and grandfather.  Her grandfather... View Source

Russia’s earthquake was estimated at magnitude 8.8, among the strongest since scientists began monitoring... View Source

Satellites don't stop at borders and neither should science... View Source

President Donald Trump and other Republicans have railed for years against foreign regulation of US tech companies, including online safety laws. As the US fights a global tariff war, it may bring those rules under fire - just as some of them are growing teeth. Over the past weeks, Trump has touted a blitz of trade deals, seeking concessions from countries in exchange for lower tariffs. This has c... View Source

Telefonica SA has identified an opportunity to grow its defense business outside Spain as countries across Europe ramp up military spending, its executive chairman says... View Source

It’s almost time for another Nintendo Direct. A showcase of games from Nintendo’s partners that are coming to the Nintendo Switch and/or Switch 2 is set for 9AM ET on July 31. The stream will run for around 25 minutes and you can watch it above when the time is right. This is a partner showcase, so you probably shouldn’t expect to find out release dates for Metroid Prime 4: Beyond or Kirby Air Rid... View Source

The Indian Space Research Organisation’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle lifts off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre on India’s southeastern coast at 8:10 a.m. EDT (5:40 a.m. IST), July 30, 2025.Credit: ISRO Carrying an advanced radar system that will produce a dynamic, three-dimensional view of Earth in unprecedented detail, the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite has launc... View Source

Water usually flows downward, but something strange happened under Greenland’s ice sheet when a deluge punched through the surface to scour an area nearly twice the size of New York’s Central Park... View Source

The laptop is down to an all-time low price. If you need a laptop for school or work, our top recommendation is Apple’s 13-Inch MacBook Air with the M4 chip, which is at an all-time low price of $799 ($200 off) at Amazon and Best Buy. The machine is thin and light, yet its M4 chip is powerful enough to handle more intense workloads, including 4K video editing, or keeping dozens of tabs open. It ca... View Source

Legal software provider Dye & Durham Ltd. launched a review of strategic options, including a potential sale, in a bid to maximize shareholder value after reaching a truce with one of its largest investors. The shares jumped as much as 22% in early trading... View Source

Google says it will sign the European Union’s new AI Code of Practice, which provides a framework for compliance with the EU’s AI Act. The act itself was passed in 2024, but its many provisions will take months to years to come into effect. The non-binding Code of Practice is a voluntary measure intended to help ensure that companies generally meet the obligations laid out by the Act in the meanti... View Source

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The White House has now fully embraced bomb-prone nuclear fuel technology. This should stop before an arms race, atomic terrorism or even nuclear war results... View Source

The satellite will scan the Earth twice every 12 days... View Source

The 2025 TV Shootout went down over the weekend, and the results are shocking: yes, the Sony Bravia 8 II won the overall competition and my personal award for silliest name, but the LG G5 came in last place by a huge margin. I was one of the judges, and I think I have a sense of what's going on. If you're not familiar, the TV Shootout is an annual event hosted by Value Electronics, a boutique and... View Source

It’s a regulator’s nightmare: Hedge funds unleash AI bots on stock and bond exchanges — but they don’t just compete, they collude. Instead of battling for returns, they fix prices, hoard profits, and sideline human traders... View Source

Amazon's AI licensing deal with The New York Times is worth $20 million to $25 million per year, according to The Wall Street Journal. The two companies did not disclose the fiscal terms of the agreement back when it was announced in May. The Journal's reporting provides a rare insight into the value of a media company licensing its content for AI training. In the case of The Times, Amaz... View Source

NASA/Shawn Quinn On May 8, 2022, NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems’ Program Manager Shawn Quinn captured this crop of a full frame image of the Hadley–Apennine region of Earth’s Moon including the Apollo 15 landing site (very near the edge of the shadow of one of the lunar mountains in the area). Building upon the pioneers from the Apollo Program, Artemis crews will plan to verify capabilities for... View Source

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TikTok will start giving contributors the option to write Footnotes. TikTok is officially rolling out Footnotes, a community fact-checking program that’s supposed to add helpful context to videos. With this update, US-based users will start seeing Footnotes on videos in the coming weeks, and will also get the option to rate them. After allowing people to join the Footnotes pilot in April, TikTok s... View Source

Switzerland’s top research institutions are in early talks with arms makers including Rheinmetall AG to fund a new $250 million semiconductor plant, according to people familiar with the plans, as the historically neutral country wades deeper into defense amid surging European military spending... View Source

Apple has submitted its official response to the antitrust lawsuit the Justice Department filed against it last year, which accused the company of having smartphone monopoly and criticized its "walled garden" approach to business. It said that the lawsuit threatens what sets the iPhone apart in a fiercely competitive market, reduce consumer choice, as well as erode competition. In additi... View Source

Dive into the quirkiest and most fascinating tales from Scientific American’s 180-year archive... View Source

The Smithsonian Institution says NASA relinquished full ownership of Space Shuttle Discovery, but Congress wants to force the vehicle's relocation... View Source

Now that the Switch 2 is out, and the console’s biggest exclusives — Mario Kart World, and Donkey Kong Bananza — are delighting fans, it’s time to see what else this thing can do. Nintendo’s hosting its next Direct presentation on Thursday July 31st bright and early at 9 AM ET. You can watch the direct on YouTube here and, of course, in the Nintendo Today app. According to Nintendo, the 25-minute... View Source

Palo Alto Networks Inc. agreed to buy CyberArk Software Ltd. in a cash-and-stock deal valuing the Israeli cybersecurity company at about $25 billion... View Source

YouTube has changed its ad guideline policy surrounding swear words, allowing creators a bit more freedom than before. In a video announcement, YouTube's head of monetization, Conor Kavanagh, said that videos containing stronger profanity such as f-bombs in the first seven seconds are now eligible for full monetization. In 2022, YouTube introduced a policy that would flag videos using profane... View Source

The U.S. and India just launched NISAR, a powerful radar satellite that will be able to monitor changes in Earth's surface that are as small as a centimeter... View Source

Job postings have plunged and unemployment is up for young people, yet new research suggests an emerging paradox in which AI may expand access in some fields... View Source

Earlier this year, Lenovo released a more streamlined and potentially affordable take on its flagship gaming handheld in the Legion Go S. Unfortunately, the Windows 11 version came first, which wasn’t the one we were most excited about. Now, the Legion Go S powered by SteamOS has arrived, and oh my, what a difference an operating system can make. Not only does this model feature a UI that's much b... View Source

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have made the shock discovery that giant rogue exoplanets can grow their own planetary systems without needing a parent star... View Source

I bet you didn’t notice the squircle that much here. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If last year's Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 was tried and true, this year's Galaxy Watch 8 is a bit more like tried and fine. This isn't overtly bad. Most smartwatch newbies will be delighted by the $349.99 Galaxy Watch 8 - provided they can stomach the new squircle design. It's more that if you've been a fa... View Source

Prosus NV has started selling down its stake in Meituan, a holding valued at more than $4 billion, after the Chinese food-delivery app announced plans to start expanding in some of Prosus’ territories such as Brazil, people familiar with the matter said... View Source

TikTok's "For You" recommendations have long been a source of mystery and fascination for creators on the platform. Even the most seasoned TikTok stars don't always understand why some videos go viral and some don't. And there's long been lots of speculation about the types of content that is and isn't acceptable to the app's recommendation algorithm. Now, t... View Source

This definitely looks like a magnetic wireless charger. Evidence is mounting that Google’s Pixel 10 series will support Qi2 wireless charging, including built-in magnets, finally offering a mainstream Android alternative to Apple’s MagSafe. The latest sign is a leaked image of the Pixel 10 with what appears to be a magnetic wireless charging puck attached to the back. The leaked image comes from t... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Lizette Chapman reports on Palantir’s ownership structure, which gives effective control to the founders... View Source

TikTok users in the United States will soon see crowd-sourced fact checks appearing alongside videos on the platform. The app is beginning to roll out Footnotes, its version of Community Notes, the company announced. TikTok announced its plan to adopt the feature back in April and since then almost 80,000 users have been approved as contributors. Footnotes works similarly to Community Notes on X... View Source

A vector ecologist explains the complexities of tracking tick-borne diseases like Lyme in a climate-changed world... View Source

It seems YouTube is finally giving its TV app the AI feature that lets you skip to the most interesting parts of a video. Android Authority’s Mishaal Rahman reports that the Jump Ahead perk for YouTube Premium subscribers appeared on his Nvidia Shield TV yesterday, a feature that was previously exclusive to YouTube’s web and mobile platforms. Jump Ahead gives users an easy way to automatically get... View Source

Once dismissed as just snoring, sleep apnea is now emerging as an early warning sign for serious conditions like Alzheimer’s, heart disease, and depression... View Source

Earnings season for a handful of megacap tech firms has morphed into capex season with the AI arms race showing no signs of slowing... View Source

While humanoid robots faced off in a boxing ring at China’s flagship artificial intelligence conference in Shanghai, a fight in the US-China tech war was fought in suits nearby over who gets to set the rules in the AI age... View Source

Extreme weather is front-page news. But what are the phenomena behind the headlines?... View Source

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a new rogue planet that was orphaned from its home planetary system. The discovery was possible with a little luck and some help from Einstein... View Source

There’s nothing more frustrating than shooting the perfect reel only to realize that the audio sounds like garbage. For budding creators, it’s a frustration; for those looking to make more professional content, it’s a dealbreaker. Fortunately, the world of mobile-specific (or phone-friendly) microphones has exploded with great options in the last few years. Whether you’ve been tasked with recordin... View Source

Patients with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome are six times more at risk for the sleeping disorder. Now scientists are studying them in hopes of finding remedies beyond the CPAP machine... View Source

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. formed a strategic alliance with Teco Electric & Machinery Co., a pact that should help the iPhone-assembler advance its push into artificial intelligence hardware... View Source

Physicist who worked on Nasa Cassini mission ‘absolutely delighted’ after being awarded 350-year-old title A planetary scientist whose research revealed the possibility of extraterrestrial life on one of Saturn’s moons has been made the first female astronomer royal.Prof Michele Dougherty, a leading space physicist who was a researcher for the Nasa Cassini mission, has been awarded the 350-year-ol... View Source

Klarna Group Plc said it has received an electronic money institution license for its UK division, which could lay the ground work for the Swedish fintech to more directly compete against the likes of Revolut Ltd. and Monzo Bank Ltd. for retail bank customers... View Source