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Rocket Lab has signed a contract to launch its new Neutron rocket on a test flight that will advance the U.S. Air Force's point-to-point cargo transportation concept... View Source

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow discusses how SpaceX is targeting an IPO next year, with the goal of raising far beyond $30 billion, the most in history. Plus, Meta makes a pivot on open-source models, and Nvidia pushes back on reports that DeepSeek smuggled thousands of banned Blackwell chips into China. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Back in October, OpenAI announced apps like Spotify and Canva would be accessible in ChatGPT. At the time, the company said more software was on the way, and now one of the most popular professional applications is available through the chatbot.    Starting today, you can access Photoshop, Acrobat and Adobe Express inside of ChatGPT. All the apps are free to use through OpenAI’... View Source

Mind transfers, nanotech, and robotic innovations take center stage in this visionary 2026 book... View Source

Sarah Kunst, Managing Director and Founder of Cleo Capital, says it’s getting harder to see significant growth ahead for Adobe’s core subscription business for its creative tools after Google released its Nana Banana Pro offering. She speaks with Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on “The Close.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

For the first time, Instagram will start letting you control the topics its algorithm recommends, much as you now can on TikTok. The new feature is starting with the Reels tab but will eventually come to Explore and other areas of the app. Like much of what Meta is doing right now (for better or worse), the "Your Algorithm" feature will be powered by AI.  "As your interests evo... View Source

5 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This video highlights the Rover Operations Center at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. A center of excellence for current and future rover, aerial, and other surface missions, the ROC will support partnerships and technology transfer to catalyze the next generation of Moon and Mars surface missions. Credit: NASA/JPL-Cal... View Source

Cyber Monday may be behind us, but don't despair, there are still a few last-minute binocular deals out there, and we've put together the best on offer... View Source

William Smith, AllianceBernstein senior vice president and director of credit, says repricing in the debt markets reflects rising risks. He tells Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on “The Close” that uncertainty around payback periods, CapEx and its financing is creating a healthier dynamic for debt investors. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Like it or not, the checkmark has become an almost universal symbol on most social platforms, even though its exact meaning can vary significantly between services. Now, Reddit, which historically hasn't cared that much about its users' identity, is joining the club and starting to test verification for public figures on its platform.The company is beginning "a limited alpha test... View Source

Google DeepMind will open its first research lab for discovering new materials, like those used in batteries or semiconductors, as part of its push to apply artificial intelligence to more scientific fields... View Source

Indie game developer Edmund McMillen hosted a Reddit AMA today offering some more details about his upcoming game Mewgenics. For starters, the Steam release date for this turn-based cat-breeding RPG has been slightly delayed to February 10. The game was first announced all the way back in 2012 and had most recently been slated for a launch some time this year. Part of the long development cycle wa... View Source

South Korea’s main bourse issued a higher-level warning on investing in SK Hynix Inc., shares after strong gains sparked by expectations of a listing in New York... View Source

OpenAI is in a far less commanding position than it was following the public release of ChatGPT a few short years ago. Back in 2022, the sudden popularity of ChatGPT sent Google into a panic. The company was so worried about the possibility of the upstart chatbot disrupting its Search business, executives sounded a "code red" alert inside of the company and called Sergey Brin and La... View Source

A space telescope and AI teamed up to analyze a million galaxies and learn what triggers supermassive black holes the most... View Source

When business leaders spout buzzwords like "AI," "8K" and "5G," sometimes in the same sentence, we often get a sneaking suspicion they don't know what they mean! With President Donald Trump, there's no need to wonder: he clearly has no idea. "What does [6G] do? Give you a little bit deeper view into somebody's skin?" he mused today, live on TV, right in front of Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon, who di... View Source

SpaceX is planning to raise tens of billions of dollars through an initial public offering next year, multiple outlets have reported, and Ars can confirm. This represents a major change in thinking from the world’s leading space company and its founder, Elon Musk. The Wall Street Journal and The Information first reported about a possible IPO last Friday, and Bloomberg followed that up on Tuesday... View Source

A credit-risk measure for Oracle Corp. climbed for a third straight day on Wednesday after the database company posted a jump in spending on data centers and other equipment, raising fresh doubts about how quickly it can generate profit from its huge investments in artificial intelligence... View Source

Amazon is introducing same-day delivery of perishable food items to 1,300 new cities and towns throughout the country, upping the total service area to more than 2,300 locations. This expansion covers cities like Boise, Salt Lake City, Fort Collins, Omaha, Des Moines and many more. Check the link to see if it has expanded to where you live. The commerce giant says it will be bringing the service t... View Source

Stargazers will be able to see potentially dozens of meteors an hour, with the peak on Sunday night Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThey’re bright, they’re plentiful and the Geminids – which make up what’s regarded as one of the best annual meteor showers to witness – are about to reach their peak viewing time.The Geminid meteors have already been active in our skies sin... View Source

The Trump administration could soon require tourists from dozens of nations to hand over their social media handles before entering the country. Under a proposal from US Customs and Border Protection, the agency would make social media history from the past five years a "mandatory" part of the screening process, as reported earlier by The New York Times. Right now, travelers from 42 countries - in... View Source

Will Whitehorn, chair of Seraphim Space and former chairman of Virgin Galactic, who worked side-by-side with Richard Branson, thinks SpaceX going public will cause "huge changes" to the whole ecosystem of companies that are suppliers to SpaceX. He tells Ed Ludlow why on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Apple Music and Apple TV were briefly down during outage, according to Apple’s System Status page. The outage was logged on Apple’s own system at around 2:53PM ET and affected both of the company’s streaming services, along with Apple TV’s Channels feature, until the company resolved the issue around 4:31PM ET. On DownDetector, reports of issues with Apple TV and Apple Music first appeared right a... View Source

The Doma smart door features an integrated video doorbell, smart lock, and motorized opener. | Image: Doma Home It looks like someone may have finally done the smart door right. Doma Home, a new company from the creators of the August smart lock, has announced its first product: the Doma Intelligent Door. A motorized smart door that automatically opens as you approach and closes after you enter, t... View Source

American Airlines Group Inc. has held discussions with Amazon.com Inc. about using the Amazon Leo satellite-based internet service for in-flight Wi-Fi, part of a campaign to lure premium customers and better compete with US rivals... View Source

The year is 1987. Beverly Hills Cop II is the highest-grossing movie. "Walk Like an Egyptian" is the hottest song. The Iran-Contra scandal dominates American political headlines, while Konami’s Contra sucks up coins in arcades. But towering above them all is the watershed moment of Jaws arriving on the NES. ("This time there's no escape!", warned the box art.) Now, 38 year... View Source

A new beta feature on Spotify takes the idea behind the Discover Weekly playlist and puts the control in users' hands through AI prompts. Prompted Playlists, which are initially launching in New Zealand on Thursday, let users type out exactly what they want to listen to, with as much or little detail as they like. Then Spotify's AI curates a playlist based on those instructions and the user's list... View Source

Phil Haslett, co-founder and chief strategy officer at EquityZen, one of the largest platforms for pre-IPO shares - weighs in on Bloomberg's exclusive report that SpaceX is moving ahead with plans for an IPO that would seek to raise significantly more than $30 billion, maybe the largest IPO ever. He joins Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Mark Zuckerberg has for months publicly hinted that he is backing away from open-source AI models. Now, Meta's latest AI pivot is starting to come into focus. The company is reportedly working on a new model, known inside of Meta as "Avocado," which could mark a major shift away from its previous open-source approach to AI development. Both CNBC and Bloomberg have reported on M... View Source

A startup called Operation Bluebird is trying to reclaim Twitter's branding, as reported earlier by Ars Technica and Reuters. Last week, Operation Bluebird filed a petition that asks the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to cancel X Corp.'s ownership of the "Twitter" and "Tweet" trademarks, claiming they've been "abandoned" by the Elon Musk-owned company. Operation Bluebird is led by founder... View Source

President Donald Trump signaled opposition to a Warner Bros. Discovery sale that did not see the news network CNN included or sold to a new company, signaling a potential wrinkle for the bid from Netflix. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

You gotta love that post-Day of the Devs showcase feeling. The organization, founded by Double Fine Productions and iam8bit, consistently highlights top-tier games from independent developers across the globe, providing space for creators to share their stories in both online and in-person events. This year’s Day of the Devs: The Game Awards Digital Showcase was an hour-long celebration of 22 upco... View Source

NASA and its partners have supported humans continuously living and working in space since November 2000. After 25 years of habitation, the International Space Station continues to be a proving ground for technology that powers NASA’s Artemis campaign, future lunar missions, and human exploration of Mars.   Take a look at key technology advancements made possible by research aboard the orbiti... View Source

Space agency is investigating after Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekendNasa has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade, though the US space agency said it was trying to re-establish a communications link.Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend. Nasa said this week that it was working fine bef... View Source

Reddit is starting to test verified profiles, the company announced today. Users who are verified as part of this "limited alpha test" will have a gray checkmark next to their username "across profiles, communities, feeds, post detail pages, and search results." For this "initial test," Reddit says it's "selected a group of public figures and trusted partners," and they'll need to opt in, have acc... View Source

US President Donald Trump’s top trade negotiator said he’s concerned by the European Union’s follow-through on pledges to regulate American tech giants fairly, just days after Elon Musk’s X social network was slapped with a €120 million ($140 million) fine for violating the EU’s controversial content-moderation law... View Source

Spotify is attempting to give users more control over the music the streaming service recommends with a new playlist feature called "Prompted Playlist." The beta feature is rolling out in New Zealand starting on December 11, and will let users write a custom prompt that Spotify can use — alongside their listening history — to create a playlist of new music.By tapping on Prompted Playlist... View Source

So, you’re thinking of buying a smart ring. Well, some good news. Picking the best of the lot is incredibly easy right now. The “bad” news is that, as far as trustworthiness and reliability, your choices are somewhat limited, as this is still a niche and emerging gadget category. Smart rings are in the middle of a resurgence. That means a lot of experimental ideas and newcomer tech brands you’ve p... View Source

The Russian liquidator of Alphabet Inc.’s Google arm filed an order to seize some of the firm’s assets in France, in the latest example of the tension between Russian courts and international firms... View Source

Intel will have to pay up in an antitrust case dating back to 2009, Reuters reported on Wednesday. The company has lost its challenge against a €376 million ($438.7 million) regulatory fine levied by the European Commission. However, Intel managed to get the amount reduced to 237 million euros ($276.6 million).The case began in 2009, when mobile computing was in its infancy and netbooks (remember... View Source

Embark Studios' extraction shooter takes cues from sci-fi classics to establish a dark future, but its cautionary tale is more believable than most... View Source

Baiju Bhatt, co-founder of space-based solar company Aetherflux and Robinhood Financial LLC, speaks during the TechCrunch Disrupt 2018 summit in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018. A startup developing technologies to harness solar power in space is throwing its hat in with big tech companies attempting to build out data centers that orbit Earth. The US-based company, Aeth... View Source

Incoming co-CEO Gustav Söderström says the Prompted Playlist feature is part of a new phase of personalization... View Source

Sony just announced December's Game Catalog additions for PS Plus subscribers and it's a pretty decent lineup. All of these titles will be ready to play on December 16, except Skate Story which is already available. Speaking of Skate Story, it's a really weird skateboarding sim that's set in a glass-covered world. The reviews have been positive, with many people praising the ou... View Source

My classic Sony CRT television won't power on. My living room is chilly because my Mitsubishi heat pump isn't putting out enough hot air. I want my Japanese N64 to play US games, too, but I've been too busy to pop the hood. What if I had an AI companion to talk me through? iFixit just released a voice-and-text chatbot to do just that, one that can supposedly help you figure out repairs just by tal... View Source

Musk’s SpaceX could spur other `centicorns’ to go public... View Source

The US Department of State is unwinding a 2023 decision to use san-serif Calibri font on all official communications and switching to Times New Roman instead, The New York Times reports. In a memo obtained by NYT titled "Return to Tradition: Times New Roman 14-Point Font Required for All Department Paper," Secretary of State Marco Rubio frames the change as a way to return professionalis... View Source

Rocket Lab will launch a Korean disaster-monitoring satellite today (Dec. 10), and you can watch the action live... View Source

A subcontractor says he was crushed by a metal support, breaking his hip, knee, and tibia. He's suing SpaceX and the construction company who employed him... View Source

Apple’s Studio Display is on sale for $1,368. Apple’s Studio Display is an investment even while Amazon and Best Buy have the tilt-adjustable model marked down to $1,368 ($231 off) — its lowest price in several months. The 27-inch 5K monitor looks incredible, and has a built-in six-speaker audio system that impressed us in our tests. Its three microphone array and Apple’s optional voice isolation... View Source

Most Democratic-led states will continue to recommend the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, despite a CDC advisory panel’s vote against it... View Source

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook met with US lawmakers on Wednesday to lobby against pending children’s online safety legislation that would require app store operators to authenticate users’ ages, pressing instead for an alternate version that puts the burden of protecting kids on parents... View Source

Ever since reporting earlier this year on how easy it is to trick an agentic browser, I've been following the intersections between modern AI and old-school scams. Now, there's a new convergence on the horizon: hackers are apparently using AI prompts to seed Google search results with dangerous commands. When executed by unknowing users, these commands prompt computers to give the hacker... View Source

Something happened to the probe on the far side of the Red Planet... View Source

Meta's next AI model could mark a change in its "open source" AI strategy that Mark Zuckerberg had called "the path forward." Currently, the company is working on a new AI model, code-named Avocado, that it might charge for access to, Bloomberg reports. Last year, Meta launched its open source (depending on who you ask, since the Open Source Initiative disagrees) Llama 4 AI model, but it had a dis... View Source

With a key Russian launch pad out of service, NASA is accelerating the launch of two Cargo Dragon spaceships in order to ensure that astronauts on board the International Space Station have all the supplies they need next year. According to the space agency’s internal schedule, the next Dragon supply mission, CRS-34, is moving forward one month from June 2026 to May. And the next Dragon supply mis... View Source

Microsoft, Amazon and Google are pouring billions into AI investments in India. Will this be the country’s breakthrough AI moment? Saritha Rai explains. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

YouTube TV, which launched in 2017 as a $35-per-month all-in-one service, will soon introduce YouTube TV Plans. Although the announcement is light on details, we know the initiative will let you sign up for genre-specific packages, such as sports and news. In other words, it's the final step in the legacy-cable-ification of the service.YouTube hasn't said anything about pricing. But it... View Source

Programmable matter mines swarm the U.S.S. Athena in this action-packed 4-minute preview... View Source

Google is planning to update its AI-powered search feature, AI Mode, to include more in-line links to the sources it's pulling information from. The company included the update as part of a broader change to the way it interacts with sources, saying it will also introduce the links embedded inside AI Mode with an AI-generated snippet to explain why they're useful. As shown in an example shared by... View Source

Vape seller Fifty Bar is trying to recover more than $1 million worth of produc... View Source

Rockstar Games may have to answer for what appears to be union-busting behavior. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, under pressure from parliament, said the government will "look into" the firing of 31 employees in October.The sacked workers were all part of a private trade union chat group on Discord. The company claimed the firings were "for gross misconduct" and accused the wor... View Source

A new feature coming to Android will allow users to get more support during emergencies by sharing a live video feed from their phone with 911 responders. For instance, if someone calls 911 for a medical emergency, the 911 responder can use the live video feed to walk the caller through CPR or first aid until paramedics arrive. Emergency Live Video is also helpful in situations where someone is lo... View Source

Finastra Group Holdings Ltd. has hired PJT Partners Inc. to help with plans to sell its unit that caters to mid-sized US banks, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Nintendo has announced its Nintendo Switch Online additions for December, which are for all the N64-era 3D platformer fans out there. On December 17, Rayman 2: The Great Escape and Tonic Trouble are joining the Switch’s Nintendo Classics library. As a reminder, N64 games are exclusive to Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscribers, along with the emulators for the Game Boy Advance, Sega Genesis and... View Source

I'm convinced that whoever said it's about the journey, not the destination, has never traveled. Try sitting on a plane for 16 hours - plus delays, airport security, and a snoring seat neighbor - and then get back to me. While getting from point A to point B can feel like a test of endurance, a few smart upgrades can make all the difference when you're on the move. If you or someone you know is he... View Source

Netflix, a company that built its business on junk bonds, is looking to borrow heavily again... View Source

Petco has accidentally exposed a whole lot of customer data and personal information, according to a report by TechCrunch. This is thanks to a security lapse involving its Vetco clinics website, forcing the company to take a portion of that site offline. Petco has confirmed the leak and TechCrunch noted that the security lapse allowed anyone to download customer records without login information... View Source

NASA/Bill Ingalls The Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft is seen as it lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Dec. 9, 2025, with Expedition 73 NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky aboard. The trio returned to Earth after logging 245 days in space as members of Expeditions 72 and 73 aboard the International Space Station. While aboar... View Source

Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) was imaged in October as it crossed the galactic plane of the Milky Way... View Source

Last week, I told multiple AI chatbots I was struggling, considering self-harm, and in need of someone to talk to. Fortunately, I didn't feel this way, nor did I need someone to talk to, but of the millions of people turning to AI with mental health challenges, some are struggling and need support. Chatbot companies like OpenAI, Character.AI, and Meta say they have safety features in place to prot... View Source

YouTube TV plans to launch more than 10 new subscription plans for genre-specific content in early 2026, including one focused on sports... View Source

If learning a new skill is one of your New Year's resolutions, then you might want to know that MasterClass subscriptions are currently 40 percent off. This brings the top-tier subscription with offline mode and use on up to six devices down from $240 annually to $144. The entry-level plan, which supports just one device and doesn't offer offline viewing, is marked down to $72 from $120... View Source

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 27 Starlink satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Station in California on Dec. 10, 2025. It was the 160th Falcon 9 flight of the year... View Source

The Echo Spot is a gift that pulls double duty, acting as a smart speaker, alarm, and even smart home controller. If you want a cheap gift that feels expensive, the Echo Spot is a great pick. The versatile smart display can handle dozens of everyday tasks, and right now it’s back at its all-time low of $44.99 ($35 off) at Amazon, Target, and Best Buy. That actually beats its Black Friday and Cyber... View Source

Mattel Chairman and CEO Ynon Kreiz explains how he has transformed the maker of Barbie and Hot Wheels from a traditional toy manufacturer into a modern intellectual property and brand management powerhouse. He also discusses how he recognized the untapped potential of Mattel’s brands far beyond the toy aisle. Kreiz is on this week's episode of "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer to Peer Conversations... View Source

CloverPit is one of my favorite games of the year so far. Developer Panik Arcade took the formula that helped make Balatro so successful — using various tools to bend the rules of the game to help you rack up obscenely high scores — and based it around a slot machine rather than poker. It’s been a hit so far on PC, where it has sold more than a million copies since September, and on Xbox. CloverPi... View Source

Double pinch lets you dismiss notifications or | Image: Google Google has started to roll out the first update for the Pixel Watch 4 since the wearable launched last August. WearOS 6.1 is available for the Pixel Watch 2, 3, and 4 models, but only the Pixel Watch 4 will be getting a pair of new one-handed gestures, while improvements made to smart replies are limited to the Pixel Watch 3 and 4. Dou... View Source

Microchip manufacturers Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Texas Instruments Inc. were accused in a series of lawsuits of failing to keep their technology out of Russian-made weapons used to kill and wound civilians in Ukraine... View Source

Apple’s Studio Display hasn’t been updated since it launched in 2022, but it remains one of the best monitors for the Mac-oriented, and right now you can pick one up for $230 off. This deal applies specifically to the tilt-adjustable model, which means you can’t adjust the height of the built-in stand. That might be a deal-breaker for some users, but if not, $1,368 is a near-record low. The Studio... View Source

The findings provide an answer to a planetary mystery that has bewildered scientists for nearly four decades... View Source

Denise Dresser has served as CEO of Slack since 2023. | Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images OpenAI is bringing Slack CEO Denise Dresser on board to serve as the AI giant's chief revenue officer. In an announcement on Tuesday, OpenAI says Dresser will oversee the company's global revenue strategy, while helping "more businesses put AI to work in their day-to-day operations." Dresser has worked a... View Source

Chevron Chief Executive Officer Mike Wirth discusses the impact of lower oil prices on exploration, discussions with the Trump administration on remaining in compliance with sanctions in Venezuela, power needs for artificial intelligence, and what he sees for the future of oil and gas prices. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Not long ago, you may have thought of projectors as complicated, unreliable or just too expensive. In 2025, though, consumer sentiment started to flip. Companies like Anker and Valerion made the projector experience more practical and immersive, helping drive consumer interest and, ultimately, sales. This shift has been quite a few years in the making. LG helped kickstart the projector renaissance... View Source

Over the past 18 months, the largest AI companies in the world have quietly settled on an approach to building the next generation of apps and services - an approach that would allow AI agents from any company to easily access information and tools across the internet in a standardized way. It's a key step toward building a usable ecosystem of AI agents that might actually pay off some of the enor... View Source

Mark Zuckerberg is getting personally involved in day-to-day work and pivoting Meta Platforms Inc.’s focus to an artificial intelligence model it can make money from. Ed Ludlow reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

In a world where notifications persistently compete for our attention, distraction-free ereaders and writing tablets have found an audience. Putting your phone, laptop or iPad aside and curling up with a Kindle or a reMarkable tablet have become an almost ironic way for the tech-savvy to disconnect from online noise and focus on reading and writing. It’s debatable how broad the appeal of these dev... View Source

Retirement Information for NASA Employees The NSSC provides general administrative, advisory, and transactional support for federal benefits programs to all NASA employees, calculates retirement estimates, and processes retirement packages. If you are a NASA employee, please visit the NASA Employee Portal for more information. In consideration of retiring employees on administrative... View Source

Once completed, this telescope will help usher in a new era of astronomy... View Source

The new Boomslang includes a wireless charging dock with its own RGB lighting effects. | Image: Razer Razer is returning to its roots and relaunching the world's first gaming mouse that debuted over 25 years ago before there was even a gaming peripheral industry. The original Kärna Razer Boomslang was best known for its encoding wheel that could more accurately track a mouse's movements at 2,... View Source

ChatGPT users can now access Photoshop and other creativity software from Adobe Inc. directly within the chatbot, as OpenAI works to bring more third-party apps into its flagship product... View Source

The European Union has provisionally agreed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent (based on 1990 levels) by 2040, the EU parliament announced in a press release. That goes beyond the goals of most other major economies, including China, but falls short of the original one recommended by the EU's climate science advisors. "The target delivers on the need for climate action whil... View Source

Instagram is launching a new AI-powered feature for fine-tuning which videos appear in your Reels tab. The "Your Algorithm" update allows you to see which topics Instagram already thinks you're interested in based on your previous activity, and then remove some, or add new topics, to better direct what kind of videos you actually want to see. "As your interests evolve over time, we want to give yo... View Source

Evoke Plc shares jumped as much as 12% on Wednesday after the UK betting and gaming company said it’s looking at potentially selling the entire business... View Source

The holidays are nearly here and if you’re a bit behind on your gift shopping, you’re not alone. The holidays can truly sneak up on you, and this year that’s been more true than ever. Between wrapping things up at work before some well-deserved time off and making sure you have everything you need to host family and friends, it can be hard to find the time to go to a store to pick out presents. An... View Source

"We might lose the ability to observe about 30% of the faintest galaxies. We are at the point of starting to be able to see details of exoplanet atmospheres, but if the sky gets brighter, we may not be able to see those details anymore."... View Source

The Photoshop app for ChatGPT will provide UI interfaces like sliders for some editing requests. Adobe is giving ChatGPT users some new capabilities for designing and editing their work without having to switch apps. New apps for Photoshop, Acrobat, and Adobe Express are launching today directly in ChatGPT, allowing users to create designs or adjust photos and PDFs by describing what they want. Th... View Source

Fervo Energy, the US geothermal startup whose technology uses the earth’s heat to generate power, raised $462 million from a group of new and existing investors... View Source

Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has relied on Nvidia Corp. chips that are banned in the country to develop an upcoming AI model, according to a new report in The Information... View Source

Dutch payments firm Mollie is expected to announce it has completed its acquisition of British fintech unicorn GoCardless as early as this week, boosting its capabilities in payment processing, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

The costs of a hail damage have ballooned over the past two decades, prompting researchers to resort to extreme measures to understand how these storms destroy buildings... View Source

Wingtech Technology Co. has invited court-appointed custodians of Nexperia BV to discussions in a bid to regain control of the Dutch chipmaker and resolve an impasse that has threatened supplies of critical components for automakers... View Source

For the first time, we can see and hear lightning-like discharges in Mars' thin atmosphere... View Source

Parkinson’s disease has environmental toxic factors, not just genetic... View Source

Options traders have weighed in on whether the run in artificial intelligence stocks is coming to an end, and their verdict is a resounding no, not anytime soon... View Source

For the full experience visit: Made in Vietnam: Trump Tariffs Ended China’s Monopoly on US Video Game Consoles... View Source

Global investors, including Singapore’s Temasek Holdings Pte and Capital Group, are offering to buy shares in Swiggy Ltd., according to people familiar with the matter, as the Indian food delivery company seeks fresh funds a year after its market debut... View Source

Lenskart co-founder and CEO, Peyush Bansal, discusses the company’s expansion plans and its recent partnership with Pop Mart on Labubu‑themed eyewear. He spoke exclusively on Bloomberg’s Insight with Haslinda Amin. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Moore Threads Technology Co. shares jumped as much as 27% in Shanghai on Wednesday after the recent market debutant said it would release new artificial intelligence chip products next week... View Source

The robots aren’t coming for your job, yet... View Source

Reports say space exploration company has begun talks to raise more than $25bn for IPOBusiness live – latest updatesElon Musk’s space exploration company SpaceX is preparing to list on the stock market next year, in a move that could raise more than $25bn ($18.7bn) and value the business at more than $1tn, according to reports.SpaceX, which designs, builds and launches rockets, is said to have sta... View Source

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks about his company's $17.5 billion investment in India's AI infrastructure as well as plans to improve AI skills among millions of people in India. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Barclays Plc is buying a stake in a British-Danish fintech company specializing in banking technology, joining an investor group that includes four of its large European and US rivals... View Source

SpaceX is moving ahead with plans for an initial public offering that would seek to raise significantly more than $30 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. The transaction would make it the biggest listing of all time. The company is targeting a valuation of about $1.5 trillion for the entire company, and is pursuing a listing as soon as mid-to-late 2026. Bloomberg’s Julia Fiorett... View Source

Coupang Inc. Chief Executive Officer Park Dae-jun has resigned after the company incurred the country’s largest-ever data breach, in which the personal data of more than 30 million people was compromised... View Source

The Game Awards 2025 edition of the Day of the Devs digital showcase goes live on Wednesday, December 10 at 1PM ET on Twitch and YouTube. That’s more than 30 hours before The Game Awards itself kicks off, which makes perfect sense. It is called Day of the Devs, after all, and if we’re judging by past appearances, the event absolutely deserves its own full 24 hours in the spotlight.This year, the D... View Source

Nintendo Co.’s shares slid as much as 4.7% Wednesday to their lowest level since May, weighed down by concerns that the surging price of components including memory chips will erode its profit... View Source

Nu Quantum, a British startup that builds networking infrastructure to link and scale quantum computers, raised $60 million in one of the largest Series A rounds raised in the UK, as investors bet on advances in the frontier technology... View Source

The US Justice Department is weighing a challenge to a deal between two of the largest companies offering software to small, independent pharmacies, as antitrust enforcers step up their focus on the health-care industry... View Source

US manufacturer GE Vernova Inc. showered shareholders with rewards in the latest sign that demand for new natural gas-fired power will remain robust for years into the future... View Source

Accenture and Anthropic announced a major expansion of their partnership to help enterprises move from AI pilots to full-scale deployment, forming the Accenture Anthropic Business Group with approximately 30,000 professionals to be trained. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Accenture CEO Julie Sweet talk about the project on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A unit of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com Inc. has agreed to purchase a 50% stake in Hong Kong’s CCB Tower for HK$3.5 billion ($450 million) from Lai Sun Development Co... View Source

President Donald Trump decided to let Nvidia sell its H200 chips to China after weeks of deliberations with advisers. Bloomberg's Annabelle Droulers breaks down the key factors that drove the decision. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Meesho Ltd., an Indian e-commerce platform, is set to debut in Mumbai on Wednesday in a closely watched listing that will gauge investor appetite after a string of blockbuster tech IPOs... View Source

This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Reinforcement learning (RL) is the next frontier, Google is surging, and the party scene has gotten completely out of hand. Those were the through lines from this year's NeurIPS in San Diego. NeurIPS, or the "Conference on Neural Information Processing Sy... View Source

Burkay Gur, CEO of generative-media platform fal, discusses how the company uses Nvidia chips as part of its stack to run AI models for audio, video and image generation. Gur joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech” off the back of fal’s latest fundraise. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

We’ve all been there: You can’t (or won’t) get help when something breaks, but the YouTube clip doesn’t cover your specific issue. It’s what repair gurus at iFixit want to solve with FixBot, an AI-enabled app that talks you through whatever repair you’re doing. The chatbot will help you diagnose the problem and then walk you step-by-step through the fix. Plus, it’s voice-enabled so you won’t have... View Source

This year, Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s gaming business scored record sales, defying an industry slowdown with international hits like zombie horror Dying Light: The Beast... View Source

When the nonprofit Freedom House recently published its annual report, it noted that 2025 marked the 15th straight year of decline for global internet freedom. The biggest decline, after Georgia and Germany, came within the United States.Among the culprits cited in the report: age verification laws, dozens of which have come into effect over the last year. "Online anonymity, an essential enabler f... View Source

Airbnb Inc.’s chief information officer is leaving, the latest technical leadership change at the home-rental company in recent weeks as it prepares to roll out more artificial intelligence app updates next year... View Source

Congrats to any budding Nostradamus out there who peered into the future to boldly predict that Amazon would bring more shopping features to Alexa+ sooner rather than later. A gold star for you. Yes, it hasn't taken too long for Amazon to weave more features into the generative AI-powered version of Alexa that are designed to get you to buy more stuff.Shopping features were part of the origin... View Source

Alternative social media platforms have surged in popularity in Australia Wednesday, as the nation’s landmark ban for under-16s drives children to non-restricted apps... View Source

Spotify is finally letting the United States join its music video party. Music Videos have started rolling out in beta today to Premium users across the US and Canada, offering not only official artist videos but also new formats like live performances and covers. Music Videos first arrived last year in 11 countries, but the United States wasn't one of them. The reason for that was simple — S... View Source

Future Call of Duty releases will no longer include back-to-back launches of Modern Warfare or Black Ops games, Activision announced on Tuesday. The past four releases in the series have been Modern Warfare II (2022), Modern Warfare III (2023), Black Ops 6 (2024), and Black Ops 7 (2025), but moving forward, Activision wants to offer "an absolutely unique experience each and every year," according... View Source

SK Hynix Inc. is reviewing the possibility of listing shares in New York, a move seen potentially helping close the valuation gap between the South Korean chipmaker and US peers including Micron Technology Inc... View Source

We love a little nostalgia mixed in with our cozy gaming, and ReStory looks like a perfect blend of those two. In this upcoming indie game, you play the owner of a Tokyo electronics repair shop in the mid 2000s. The trailer that dropped today shows you tinkering with some very familiar gadgets from the era, such as renamed riffs on a Tamagotchi, a Nokia brick phone, a PSP and a Walkman. You clean... View Source

The Department of Defense is announcing its own "bespoke" AI platform, GenAI.mil, and Google Cloud's Gemini will be the first AI tool available on it, according to a press release. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (who has dubbed himself Secretary of War, though the name has not been legally changed by Congress) promised that the platform "puts the worlds [sic] most powerful frontier AI models di... View Source

As China races to catch up with the US in artificial intelligence technology, the state of relations between the countries can be gauged by looking at which of the chips made by Silicon Valley’s Nvidia Corp. can be shipped to Chinese customers... View Source

Owners of the Porsche Macan and upcoming Porsche Cayenne Electric will be able to unlock and start their cars with their Galaxy phones, Samsung has announced. The cars, alongside other Porsche models, are gaining support for Samsung Wallet's Digital Key feature, which lets users wirelessly control their car over a secure UWB or NFC connection.Digital Key support will be available in Europe in... View Source

X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Chicago/H. McCall Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the universe held together by gravity, containing up to several thousand individual galaxies and huge reservoirs of superheated, X-ray-emitting gas. The mass of this hot gas is typically about five times higher than the total mass of all the galaxies in galaxy clusters. In addition to these visible component... View Source

China just launched three Long March rockets in less than 19 hours, setting a new national mark for liftoff cadence... View Source

Hello and welcome to Regulator. If you're a subscriber, you are stalwart and true, and if you're here from the internet, prove your chivalry and worth by subscribing to The Verge here. (And if you're David Sacks: we said what we said.) As of Tuesday, President Donald Trump has committed to signing some sort of executive order that would do something that would give him some federal control over AI... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss President Trump’s decision to allow Nvidia to ship its H200 AI chip to China, in exchange for a 25% surcharge. Plus, the battle for Warner Bros. heats up, as antitrust concerns swirl around both Netflix’s and Paramount Skydance’s offers. And Microsoft is committing $17.5 billion over four years to help build India's cloud and AI infrastructure. (Sour... View Source

OpenAI has announced that Denise Dresser, the current CEO of Slack, will be the company's new Chief Revenue Officer. Dresser will oversee the company's revenue strategy "across enterprise and customer success," according to OpenAI's announcement, and will presumably play a key role in leading the company towards profitability now that it's reorganized as a public bene... View Source

5 Min Read What a Blast! NASA Langley Begins Plume-Surface Interaction Tests Views of the 60-foot vacuum sphere in the which the plume-surface interaction testing is happening. Credits: NASA/Joe Atkinson In March as Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission-1 landed on the Moon, researchers from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, employed a novel camera system to capture first-of-it... View Source

If you're having a stressful holiday season, the answer is McDonald's - at least, that's what a now-removed AI-generated ad suggested, as reported by Futurism. Set to a song calling holiday season "the most terrible time of the year," the ad shows AI-generated people falling victim to a slew of wintery woes, including family dinners, shopping, caroling, baking cookies, and putting up a Christmas t... View Source

Young teenagers in Australia have been barred from social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok in one of the toughest crackdowns on digital platforms in the democratic world... View Source

Uber is rolling out kiosks for travelers to book rideshares without using the mobile app. The company is pitching the service as a convenience for international travelers who may not have a data plan, but it could also be a lifesaver if your phone runs out of juice and you don't have a way to recharge it. A passenger can use the kiosk to enter their destination and desired ride type, then wil... View Source

2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA engineer Hanbong Lee demonstrates capabilities to manage busy urban airspace traffic during a recent simulation at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.NASA/Brandon Torres-Navarrete NASA is helping shape the future of urban air travel with a new simulation that will manage how electric air tax... View Source

The supernova exploded over 13 billion years ago in a galaxy far, far away... View Source

Argo Infrastructure Partners is ramping up its bet on data centers after agreeing to be acquired by Apollo Global Management Inc. earlier this year... View Source

It looks like Meta has decided to turn Instagram users into unwitting SEO spam pawns. On Tuesday, 404 Media reported that the platform is generating sensational, likely AI-generated headlines for user posts without their knowledge or explicit consent. An Engadget editor has also noticed this on their posts. The headlines are found in the pages’ code and are only visible in search results.The schem... View Source

Australia is joining a wave of governments around the globe in regulating how kids spend their time online. On December 10th, most major social media platforms will boot children in the country under 16 from their services. Under the law, social platforms will also need to implement a "reasonable" age verification method there - while critics argue kids will get around it anyway. These changes ste... View Source

Ross Gerber, CEO of Gerber Kawasaki, discusses the offers to buy Warner Bros. Discovery and explains why he sold his Paramount Skydance stake and held on to Netflix. He joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Traeger debuted its Woodridge line of Wi-Fi-enabled pellet grills back in January. The overall theme across the Woodridge, Woodridge Pro and Woodridge Elite is the company’s reliable performance and features are available for less than the cost of its most premium models. Just before Christmas, the company is adding to the the Woodridge lineup with the Woodridge Pro Plus. For $400 more than the Wo... View Source

"This is certainly an outburst unlike any other we've seen in the past 50 years."... View Source

The company is looking to raise $30 billion, which would make it the biggest IPO ever, just ahead of Saudi Aramco's in 2019... View Source

Continuing CEO Mark Zuckerberg's plan to make Facebook "way more culturally influential than it is today," Meta is announcing a bunch of new updates to help you "cut through the clutter" and make content in the app. The changes include tweaks to how you see and interact with photos in your feed that could make the experience feel a bit more like Instagram. As part of updates to make your feed "sim... View Source

"I expect half of DATs (digital-asset treasury firms) to consolidate by next year". David Bailey, the CEO & Chairman of KindlyMD and connected to various DATs, is the man credited with converting President Donald Trump into a crypto believer. He joins "Bloomberg Crypto". (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Game Awards are this week, with the grand showcase for 2025 coming up on Thursday, December 11 at 8PM ET. There's also a pre-show (in case the multi-hour affair just isn't enough TGA for you) and that kicks off at 7:30PM ET. The ceremony will be a mix of honoring games from the past year and debuting trailers for future releases, so expect a couple interesting announcements to emerge... View Source

Google’s Pixel Buds 2a come in a stylish purple shade that stands out. Google just launched its holiday sale, and it’s basically Black Friday and Cyber Monday revived. From smartphones to smart security devices, plenty of great gifts have returned to their Black Friday prices, with some third-party retailers in some cases offering better deals than Google. Prices for a few of our favorite gadgets... View Source

Prediction markets have grown rapidly in 2025. Now Wall Street might be getting a head start over retail with prediction bets. Bloomberg's Lydia Beyoud reports on "Bloomberg Crypto" (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

AI chatbots haven't come close to replacing teens' social media habits, but they are playing a significant role in their online habits. Nearly one-third of US teens report using AI chatbots daily or more, according to a new report from Pew Research. The report is the first from Pew to specifically examine how often teens are using AI overall, and was published alongside its latest r... View Source

Over two films, Rian Johnson's Knives Out series has offered something largely absent from the modern movie landscape: intricate murder mysteries full of humor and gasp-worthy moments. The original Knives Out started things off relatively small with a cozy whodunit, which then became a larger and more elaborate puzzle with the sequel Glass Onion. Both were crowd-pleasers, and in a lot of ways Wake... View Source

Pebble, the pioneering smartwatch brand that made a surprise comeback earlier this year as part of a new company, is expanding into a timely new category: smart rings... View Source

The James Webb Space Telescope and other international observatories have spotted a 13-billion-year-old supernova. On Tuesday, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced the sighting of a gamma-ray burst from a star that exploded when the Universe was only 730 million years old. The Webb telescope even detected the supernova's host galaxy. Before this observation, the oldest recorded supernova... View Source

The AirPods Pro 3 make for a nice upgrade or gift, especially at $30 off. | Image: The Verge If you didn’t catch the Black Friday deal on Apple’s AirPods Pro 3, the good news is the price has dropped again ahead of the holidays. Right now, the noise-canceling earbuds are matching their all-time low price of $219.99 ($30 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. It’s a great deal considering the AirPo... View Source

Bids from Netflix and Paramount Skydance to buy Warner Bros. Discovery both raise antitrust concerns including the question of market definition as audiences view more user-generated content. Jennifer Huddleston, senior tech fellow at the Cato Institute, discusses the issues with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Sony's 2025 PlayStation Wrap-Up is now available. The recap, which is similar to those from music streaming services, sums up gaming habits from throughout the year. It shows players how many hours they used their PS4 or PS5, what games they played the most, preferred genres, trophy counts and more. These digital cards are shareable on social media, which is kind of the whole point. Nothing s... View Source

Two Chinese astronauts installed more debris shielding on the Tiangong space station and assessed the damage to the attached Shenzhou 20 spacecraft during a spacewalk on Tuesday (Dec. 9)... View Source

A girl can dream. | Image: Redfin / The Verge Look, I'm as fed up as the next guy with AI chatbots stuffed into every app. I don't want to brainstorm coverage options with an LLM every time I renew my car insurance. I'd much rather message a human than a robot to pester FedEx about my missing package. But I have found one scenario where AI is actually pretty great: real estate. I need to confess s... View Source

Delivery Hero SE said it’s evaluating options to improve its finances and operations, including changes to its capital structure, after coming under pressure from major shareholders to conduct a strategic review... View Source

It has been two months since Google released the Pixel Watch 4 and now the company is introducing new updates to the wearable. In our review, Engadget managing editor Cherlynn Low was impressed enough with the watch to give it an 86, but called out the lack of gesture-based interactions. The new one-handed gesture features, like double pinch and wrist turn, should make up for that.  In an ind... View Source

Nicolas Escurat A flash of lightning, and then—something else. High above a storm, a crimson figure blinks in and out of existence. If you see it, you are a lucky witness of a sprite, one of the least-understood electrical phenomena in Earth’s upper atmosphere. Sprites occur at some 50 miles (80 kilometers) altitude, high above thunderstorms. They appear moments after a lightning strike – a sudden... View Source

Quantware has solved the fanout problem for superconducting quantum computers. They are making breakthroughs that can scale quantum computers to millons of qubits by 2029. They are at the Q2B silicon valley conference today at the Santa Clara convention center. QuantWare announces VIO-40K, a new scaling architecture for quantum chips which solves the bottlenecks of ... Read more... View Source

The Nothing Phone 3A Community Edition revamps Nothing's usual monochrome look with a 90s-inspired design infused by pops of color. It's updating the basic 3A's transparent backplate with a teal tint, plus yellow and magenta buttons. They're also throwing in an accessory too, for the first time, adding a limited edition set of six-sided dice with a matching teal and yellow case that uses the compa... View Source

B-9 had Will Robinson. Twiki had Buck Rogers. And, of course, C-3PO and R2-D2 had Luke Skywalker. Now, in a scenario straight out of science fiction, MAPP will have whoever NASA names to the crew of the second Artemis mission to land on the moon. The space agency has selected Lunar Outpost’s Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform, or MAPP, to become the first robotic rover to operate on the moon a... View Source

In 2021, well before AI became a corporate buzzword, BMW AG’s production chief Milan Nedeljkovic made a bet on using Nvidia Corp.’s technology to virtually plan future factories... View Source

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 just got a fairly bizarre expansion inspired by the Netflix show Stranger Things. If you've ever wanted to fly over a fictional Indiana town in the 1980s, this is the update for you. That's right. The game now lets folks fly over Hawkins, Indiana and check out more than 40 iconic locations from the series, including Starcourt Mall, the junkyard, the govern... View Source

The image shows a good example of the phenomenon called airglow... View Source

Random access memory, or RAM, is in just about every piece of technology we use. But it’s also the technology that AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta are using to power the servers in their massive data centers. Now, the world’s biggest memory makers — Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron — are taking advantage of a surge in demand, shifting their resources away from consum... View Source

Artificial intelligence has created a “terrifying” outlook for employment, Oaktree Capital Management LP co-founder Howard Marks cautioned, and an assumed productivity boom fails to consider how many people will be able to afford the additional goods produced... View Source

You can add the Switch 2 to the (long) list of platforms where you can play The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The bad news: It costs $60 to play the 2011 game optimized for Nintendo's 2025 hardware. The good news: It costs less (or nothing) if you own one of the versions for the original Switch. The (digital-only) Switch 2 port is the Anniversary Edition of Skyrim, released in 2021. That includes... View Source

A pilot signals to a crew member before takeoff from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on Aug. 21, 2025. Accompanying him in the high-flying ER-2 aircraft is one of the most advanced imaging spectrometers in the solar system.NASA/Christopher LC Clark Called AVIRIS-5, it’s the latest in a long line of sensors pioneered by NASA JPL to survey Earth, the Moon, and other w... View Source

Your guide to January’s full Wolf Moon, from peak times to skywatching highlights... View Source

A Microsoft data center under construction in Aldie, Virginia, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. | Photo: Getty Images More than 230 groups including Food & Water Watch, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and Greenpeace are demanding a pause on the construction of any new data centers in the US until stronger regulations are in place to prevent soaring electricity rates, water use, and polluti... View Source

The value of faltering cable channels such as CNN, TNT and Discovery could play a major role in what company winds up with control of Warner Bros. Discovery. Paramount made a hostile bid of $30-a-share all-cash bid. Netflix made an offer of $27.75-a-share. Bloomberg's Lucas Shaw breaks down where we are now on "Bloomberg Technology." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Somewhere along its never-ending quest to increase engagement, Meta realized that giving Facebook users more of what they want would make it more likely that they'll stick around. The company has announced a bunch of updates designed to help improve the feed and the broader Facebook experience by making it easier to find, create and share interesting things. (Because primarily showing updates... View Source

Humanity's exploration of Mars should be organized around the search for signs of past or present Red Planet life, according to a new report from the U.S. National Academies... View Source

Eric Migicovsky, the founder of Pebble and the person leading its recent comeback, is very much in the business of making gadgets for himself. And he seems extremely into the one on his finger: It's called the Pebble Index 01 (but we'll just call it Index), and it's a $75 ring meant to be worn on your (surprise!) index finger. It has a microphone, a button for activating that microphone, and nothi... View Source

Scott Chronert, Citi US equity strategist and managing director, sees a "broadening theme" in markets in addition to the AI tailwinds in tech going into 2026 on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A collaborative report from Consumer Reports, Groundwork Collaborative and More Perfect Union has uncovered pricing experiments within the Instacart app that yielded higher or lower prices for different users on the exact same items from the same store location. The organizations partnered to enroll 437 shoppers in an experiment across four cities, where each shopper added the same items to their... View Source

When Ikea announced its collection of 21 new Matter-over-Thread devices last month, it wasn't expecting the new hardware to be available in the US until January 2026. Over the past month the devices have started showing up across Europe, but a handful of them are now available through Ikea's US website and some of its physical stores across the country. Four of the five smart sensors announced in... View Source

Sending astronauts to the red planet will be a decades-long activity and cost many billions of dollars. So why should NASA undertake such a bold mission? A new report published Tuesday, titled “A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars,” represents the answer from leading scientists and engineers in the United States: finding whether life exists, or once did, beyond Earth. “We’re search... View Source

Hello and welcome to the newsletter, a grab bag of daily content from the Odd Lots universe. Sometimes it's us, Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway, bringing you our thoughts on the most recent developments in markets, finance and the economy. And sometimes it's contributions from our network of expert guests and sources. Whatever it is, we promise it will always be interesting... View Source

Pebble just announced the Index 01, a smart ring for recording thoughts. It's a little ring with a built-in microphone and that's about it. The Index 01 is almost anti-tech in its simplicity. There's no needless AI component shoehorned in, aside from speech-to-text. It's a ring with a microphone that you whisper ideas into and I want one. Here's how it works. You get an id... View Source

Here’s what the A/B testing interface looks like in YouTube Studio. YouTube is giving more creators a way to test how different titles perform on their videos. After rolling out the ability to test and compare video titles to a "small percentage" of creators in July, YouTube has now expanded the tool in YouTube Studio to "all creators with access to advanced features," making it easier to pick the... View Source

Elon Musk’s Starlink Inc. urged Namibians to provide comment on proposed amendments to the country’s regulations as part of the satellite-internet operator’s efforts to obtain a license without ceding ownership... View Source

When someone asks me for gadget buying advice, I normally tell them to stick with their current device. In 2025, most new tech products aren't a worthwhile upgrade over even something that was released a few years ago — and with the price of everything going up, that new iPhone can wait. But things aren't normal right now. On December 3, The Wall Street Journal reported memory manufacturer Mi... View Source

Three crew members left the International Space Station and landed back on Earth after 245 days in space.The cosmonaut and station commander, Sergey Ryzhikov, handed over a symbolic key  to the Nasa astronaut Mike Fincke during a change of command ceremony onboard the station.The spacecraft landed at 8.04am Moscow time near the Kazakh city of Zhezkazgan. Continue reading... View Source