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SpaceX launched 28 more of its Starlink broadband satellites on Thursday morning (Oct. 16), sending them up from Florida's Space Coast... View Source

As trade tensions grow between the US and China, Microsoft is reportedly preparing to move the manufacturing of its Surface laptops and tablets out of China. Nikkei reports that Microsoft is aiming to move manufacturing of Surface devices and data center servers out of China “starting from 2026 at the earliest.” The move will reportedly include components, parts, and product assembly for future Su... View Source

Kraken has acquired a US-licensed futures exchange from IG Group as the crypto heavyweight seeks to broaden the range of products it can offer directly to US customers... View Source

Singapore will create an agency with powers to block harmful online content on platforms including TikTok and Facebook, saying it’s stepping up efforts to fight threats from deep fakes to online bullying... View Source

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. posted a better-than-anticipated 39% jump in quarterly profit, the latest sign of rising demand for components like Nvidia Corp. chips that power AI... View Source

Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund has sued Nio Inc. in a US court, accusing the Chinese electric vehicle maker and executives of violating securities laws by inflating revenues... View Source

Nvidia Corp. is partnering with Australian startup Firmus Technologies Ltd. to create a massive fleet of renewable energy-powered artificial intelligence data centers across the country... View Source

Ford year-to-date has around 115–117 recalls as of October 15, 2025. The total vehicles affected year-to-date now exceeds 10 million, with Q3 2025 alone accounting for over 5 million vehicles impacted across Ford’s campaigns—the highest quarterly figure for any manufacturer and representing nearly 60% of all U.S. vehicle recalls in that period. This surge continues ... Read more... View Source

Hong Kong lawmakers on Wednesday passed a ride-hailing service bill requiring platforms such as Uber Technologies Inc. to be licensed... View Source

A potentially “catastrophic” breach of a major US-based cybersecurity provider has been blamed on state-backed hackers from China, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

UK prosecutors are looking to confiscate Bitcoin worth about $6.8 billion tied to a massive fraud in China uncovered at criminal trials, as they plan a victim compensation plan to repay duped investors... View Source

Salesforce Inc. projected revenue growth will accelerate to double digits in the coming years, potentially easing investor concerns about the pace of business at the software company... View Source

Tekscend Photomask Corp. shares gained 19% in their debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Thursday after the maker of semiconductor material concluded a $1 billion initial public offering last week... View Source

The Apple Inc. executive leading an effort to develop AI-driven web search is stepping down, marking the latest in a string of high-profile exits from the company’s artificial intelligence division... View Source

Generative artificial intelligence isn’t helping hedge funds produce market-beating returns and isn’t meaningfully impacting the industry so far, according to billionaire Ken Griffin... View Source

Every now and then, you review a product you can’t get along with in any way, shape or form. Sometimes, it’s about the quality of the hardware, but more often it’s about the philosophy of its makers. Imagine trying to review a toilet built by, and for, aliens from the planet Zog: You can appreciate the intention behind it, but you’ll never be able to praise it. That’s the issue I’ve had with Halli... View Source

A battery-metals recycler that saw a 1,000% jump in its stock price in a year plummeted after a key US government grant was canceled... View Source

Apple has been expected to widen its smart home offering for a long time now, and if a new report is accurate, we could be getting a trio of new devices fairly soon. According to Bloomberg, Apple is working on an indoor camera and a smart display to arrive in 2026, as well as a tabletop robot, with the latter expected to launch in 2027. An Apple-made smart display in particular has featured heavil... View Source

Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos and other investors are backing the health-care company HistoSonics Inc. at a $3 billion valuation — betting that its technology that can help treat tumors using sound waves... View Source

In an embarrassing error, PayPal blockchain partner Paxos accidentally minted 300 trillion of the PYUSD token today. PayPal's stablecoin, which it debuted in 2023, is supposed to be redeemable at a 1:1 rate for US dollars. $300 trillion is more than double the entire world's current GDP of $117 trillion. In short, that's a really bad mistake from Paxos.At least the action did appear... View Source

The US Federal Communications Commission took steps to block one of Hong Kong’s largest phone companies from accessing domestic telecom networks, citing national security concerns... View Source

Google has released a new update to its Veo AI video generation model that should make it do a better job of sticking to prompts and converting images into videos. Veo 3.1 is available to try today through Google's Gemini API and is now also powering the company's Flow video editor.Veo 3.1 builds on the new capabilities Google introduced with launch of Veo 3 at Google I/O 2025. The new m... View Source

Oklo’s market capitalization has ballooned to $25 billion. The NRC denied Oklo’s custom combined license application in Jan 2022, citing insufficient information on maximum-credible-accident (MCA) analyses, safety classification of SSCs (systems/structures/components), QA implementation, and other key technical topics. The denial and associated letters are public. Oklo has since restructured its l... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde breaks down ASML’s earnings as the AI boom continues to fuel demand for its cutting-edge chip-making machines. Plus, deals to develop data centers just keep coming, among them Microsoft and UK startup NScale inking a fourth deal. And, Apple updates its top-of-the-line iPad Pro and other products with its own in-house chip. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Razer is updating its lineup of creator-focused webcams with two new models, the Razer Kiyo V2 and Razer Kiyo V2 X. The webcams offer new AI-powered features and 4K streaming at a more affordable price than the company's Kiyo Pro webcams.The $100 Kiyo V2 X is capable of capturing 720p video at either 60 or 30 frames per second, 1080p video at 24, 30 or 60 frames per second and 1440p video at... View Source

Google is making videos created with the AI filmmaking tool Flow even more realistic — and harder to identify as AI-generated at first glance. The company announced Wednesday that users can add in and change the shadows and lighting of their AI videos. The expanded editing features in Flow are tied to the Veo 3.1 update, also announced on Wednesday, which Google says does a better job of making a... View Source

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. gave an outlook for profit and cash flow for its upcoming fiscal year that fell short of analysts’ estimates, reflecting a margin crunch in the AI era. The shares fell in extended trading... View Source

Heads up, indie game fans: 1000xResist will arrive on Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 on November 4. The title, which is already out for PC and Nintendo Switch, will also be available through Xbox Game Pass on the same date. The game is also adding more localization support, bringing Brazilian Portuguese, French and Korean languages, so more players around the world can experience the story... View Source

A new study suggests dark matter could subtly tint or polarize light, leaving faint color clues that next-generation telescopes might detect... View Source

Don’t let pings spoil the dingers. When my household quit cable four years ago and I lost access to Seattle Mariners games on TV, I started streaming the radio broadcast on the Google Home speaker in my kitchen. Honestly? Baseball on the radio rules. You get to walk around and do stuff to the pleasant background sounds of the crowd. Sometimes you hear the crack of Cal Raleigh's bat hammering the b... View Source

Orange SA is seeking to raise €400 million ($465 million) to €500 million in a stake sale in some of its data centers in France, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Tucked away in Apple's announcement of a second-generation Vision Pro was news on the controller front. First, we already knew that, with visionOS 26, Apple's headset supports PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers. But now you can get them without Sony's headset. The Apple Store will soon begin selling the PS VR2 Sense controllers for $250. (Cue spit take.) The $400 PS VR2 headset bundl... View Source

This official tie-in title was created in collaboration with the film's director, Dan Trachtenberg... View Source

The M5 MacBook Pro, which starts at $1,599, is available for preorder starting today. | Image: Apple Apple recently announced revised 14-inch MacBook Pro and iPad Pro models, each equipped with the new M5 processor. As expected, Apple's new M5 chip is supposedly faster than the M4, with better performance for graphically demanding applications. Apple also says the M5 is significantly better at han... View Source

The Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket have been attached at the hip for the better part of two decades. The big rocket lifts, the smaller spacecraft flies, and Congress keeps the money rolling in. But now there are signs that the twain may, in the not too distant future, split. This is because Lockheed Martin has begun to pivot toward a future in which the Orion spacecraft—thanks to... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. is building a new gigawatt-sized data center in Texas to advance its artificial intelligence efforts, the latest in a string of significant investments by the company as it looks to keep pace in the competitive AI industry... View Source

Device maker Honor has revealed that one of its upcoming smartphones will offer an unusual design choice. While many manufacturers push to have more numerous and powerful cameras in their products, the Chinese company will put the camera for its new phone on a pop-out mechanical arm. According to CNBC, the design of this so-called "robot phone" is meant to showcase Honor's AI capabi... View Source

New SpaceX footage from Starship Flight 11 shows the final moments of Oct. 13 mission, which ended with a picture-perfect splashdown in the Indian Ocean... View Source

Sundar Pichai at Trump’s inauguration, alongside other Big Tech CEOs. A group of Democratic lawmakers are asking questions about YouTube’s $24.5 million settlement with President Donald Trump. In a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai and YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, five Senators — Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) — aske... View Source

Chinese state actors systemically and successfully compromised classified UK government computer systems for more than a decade, according to two former senior security officials and other government officials familiar with the matter... View Source

Like clockwork, Apple has introduced a new M-series chip on updated versions of the iPad Pro, MacBook Pro and for the first time, Apple Vision Pro. The new M5 chip shares plenty of similarities with the M4 chip Apple introduced in 2024, but the biggest seems to be a focus on improving graphics and AI performance.The M5 chip is made using a new third-generation 3nm process, according to Apple, with... View Source

A fireball flared to life in the skies over southern America in the early hours of Oct. 14, briefly turning night to day before fragmenting as it neared the surface... View Source

(From L) Political commentator Rogan O’Handley, aka DC Draino, TikToker Chaya Raichik, US conservative activist Scott Presler, commentator Liz Wheeler and US conservative political commentator Chad Prather carry binders bearing the seal of the US Justice Department reading “The Epstein Files: Phase 1” as they walk out of the West Wing of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 27, 2025. (Ph... View Source

OpenAI said that Oracle Corp. has been helping the fast-growing startup expand the build-out of its data centers outside the US, including by dealing with export controls on chips for artificial intelligence work... View Source

It's that time of year when trick-or-treaters are finalizing their costumes and horror movie streaming service Shudder surely sees an uptick in usage. Yes, spooky season is upon us and Sony is getting in on the fun with its PlayStation Plus Game Catalog additions for October.Starting on October 21, Extra and Premium subscribers will be able to play the remakes of Silent Hill 2 and Until Dawn... View Source

October is an excellent time to observe the Andromeda spiral galaxy as it passes high overhead in the Autumn night sky... View Source

The Apple-designed N1 wireless networking chip brings Thread to the iPad Pro. | Image: Apple Apple’s new M5-powered iPad Pro is the first iPad to officially support the Thread smart home protocol. It comes with Apple’s new N1 wireless networking chip, which adds Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread — the three wireless protocols the Matter smart home standard runs on. While other iPads and Macs... View Source

Global investors are ramping up bets on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. ahead of its earnings, confident that the world’s leading chip foundry will remain one of the biggest winners from the AI spending boom... View Source

Roku just announced a robust software update coming to many of its devices. These are free upgrades, with search getting a major AI boost. First of all, the pre-existing voice search feature is getting "AI smarts." This means that users will be able to ask contextual questions about movies, actors and shows. It's worth noting that the bot will deliver the answers on-screen and not v... View Source

Identifying the gravitational waves from black holes binaries could also make it clearer to detect primordial gravitational waves that date back to inflation at the moment of the Big Bang... View Source

Same device, different packaging. | Image: Amazon Following the debut of Amazon’s $39.99 Fire TV Stick 4K Select, the company told The Verge that a name change was coming to the existing “Fire TV Stick 4K” to clarify where it sat in the lineup. Now, Amazon has introduced that new branding, relaunching the product as the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Plus. Sure, the original name was confusing (is 4K bet... View Source

EssilorLuxottica SA said it bought RetinAI, a company specializing in artificial intelligence and data management in eyecare, according to a statement... View Source

The VSCO photo editing and sharing app has been around for nearly as long as Instagram, positioning itself as the serious photographer’s choice for mobile editing. The original focus was on tasteful filters and editing tools, all of which got significantly more powerful and flexible over time; VSCO has long been doing the same sort of film emulations that have made Fujifilm’s cameras so desirable... View Source

It’s-a-me, Ally-o. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Hey! I'm Sean Hollister, and I've been The Verge's unofficial handheld gaming PC reviewer since 2022, when the Steam Deck and kin took over my life. (I also helped launch this website back in the day!) And I've just spent the past week reviewing the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X, Microsoft's very first "Xbox" handhelds that are built and co-deve... View Source

Anthropic recently held early funding talks with Abu Dhabi-based investment firm MGX, barely a month after the OpenAI rival closed one of the largest financing rounds ever for a technology startup... View Source

Proton VPN currently tops my list of the best VPNs, and I gave it a glowing recommendation in my detailed Proton VPN review. It's easy to use, fast, cheap and secure, with a large server network and one of the industry's best scores at unblocking streaming sites. All that said, there's no such thing as a perfect VPN, and you may find that Proton isn't working for you. If that h... View Source

If you’re looking for a great 360-degree action camera for your next adventure, the Insta360 X5 is an excellent pick that’s on sale in black at Amazon and Best Buy for $499.99 ($50 off) through October 16th, which is an all-time low. It’s also available directly from Insta360’s online storefront for the same price with a free hardshell case. In his review, former Verge staffer Vjeran Pavic remarke... View Source

MuniOS.com, a distribution platform for state and local government bond offering documents, has been out of service for several days due to a ransomware attack, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

For as long as I can remember, I've had trouble going to sleep. When I lay down, my mind inevitably starts racing a thousand miles an hour, thinking about anything and everything. On several recent nights, though, my pre-slumber thoughts had a singular focus. I mulled over possibilities like, "What if I fuse a ball that heals my character with one that splits into smaller balls with... View Source

A small asteroid, called 2025 TP5, will safely fly by our planet Oct. 15 at about a quarter of the distance to the moon... View Source

On Wednesday, the largest US group of unions called on employers and policymakers to join in an effort it’s calling the “workers first initiative on AI.” Functionally, the effort by the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) amounts to strengthened collective bargaining in the workplace and advocating for regulations to limit the negative effect of AI on wo... View Source

Poolside, an AI coding startup that only launched its first product a year ago, is partnering with CoreWeave Inc. to develop what would be one of the largest data centers in the US, the latest sign of an investment frenzy in infrastructure for artificial intelligence... View Source

Fujifilm just announced the Instax mini LiPlay+ instant camera, which is a refresh of the original mini LiPlay from 2019. It's been six long years, so the company has added some nifty features here. First of all, there's a second camera on the rear that's intended for selfies. It features a wide-angle lens and joins the pre-existing front-facing camera. There's a new functional... View Source

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Logitech is launching a digital stylus for Apple Vision Pro that makes it easier to write, draw, and manipulate 3D designs. The Logitech Muse is essentially a pen-shaped Vision Pro controller that can be used like a paintbrush or pencil when navigating apps, making annotations, or creating art, providing a more natural experience in mixed reality environments compared to just using your hands.  Lo... View Source

Officials in Belgium warn of danger... View Source

Xbox is at a crossroads. While the PlayStation 5 and Switch 2 continue to gain popularity, multiple price hikes for the Xbox Series S and X have killed their momentum. And with several big box retailers like Costco deciding to drop Microsoft’s console from their shelves, the current-gen Xbox may be dead in the water. So what should the company do? Microsoft’s most straightforward option would be t... View Source

Minternet is an unforgivable portmanteau. Mint Mobile is trying something a bit less “mobile” with its new prepaid 5G home internet plan that goes for as little as $30 a month. To get that price, you will need to also have a Mint phone plan and pay for at least three months up front. But it’s still one of the cheapest 5G at home plans out there even if you can’t lock in the lowest price.  5G... View Source

Apple Inc. updated its top-of-the-line iPad Pro, Vision Pro headset and 14-inch MacBook Pro, rounding out a series of product refreshes ahead of the crucial holiday-shopping season... View Source

It took two years for Threads to get messaging, but you thankfully don't have to wait that long to be able to start group DMs. Meta has started rolling out group chats for the app, which lets you add up to 50 of your followers to a single conversation. Just start a new message and add anybody who follows you on Threads. The company says that you'll also be able to share a link that your... View Source

Women’s brains age more slowly than men’s, but they still have higher rates of Alzheimer’s disease... View Source

Japan’s government is dialing up the heat on OpenAI, formally asking it to stop ripping off Japanese artwork, according to ITMedia and reported by IGN. The company has been in copyright hell after the launch of its social video app Sora, which users swiftly filled with questionable AI-generated material. Minoru Kiuchi, whose many Japanese ministerial positions include leading on intellectual prope... View Source

AppLovin Corp. said it has shut down a product linked to user and short-seller allegations that apps were being downloaded to mobile phones without consent... View Source

The Ring Battery Doorbell is on sale via Amazon for just $50. This is half off and matches the Prime Day price, only now the deal is available for everyone. The sale applies to both colorways. This is the company's entry-level video doorbell but it's still got some nifty features. First of all, it's powered via a rechargeable battery, so users don't have to do any wiring to get started. It charges... View Source

Impulse Space — which was founded by Tom Mueller, SpaceX's first-ever employee — just announced that it plans to build a robotic moon lander to help open the lunar frontier... View Source

The ability to add users to group chats via shared links is coming in a future update. Meta is adding group chats to Threads, allowing users to message multiple friends in shared conversations instead of sending separate DMs. Threads users can create a group chat by starting a new message and adding up to 50 people who follow their Threads account. The group chat name can be customized to make it... View Source

A startup backed by Wall Street’s biggest banks is making headway in a push to bring electronic trading to one of the final holdouts... View Source

Apple's latest 11- and 13-inch iPad Pros have arrived, and though they're the first with the company's all-new M5 chip, they're otherwise largely identical to last year's models. The main reason to buy one, then, would be for the extra performance over the M4 — something that may be worthwhile to content creators and other power users looking for a tablet instead of a laptop.  Last year Apple... View Source

SpaceX plans to launch 21 satellites for an advanced new U.S. military constellation this evening (Oct. 15), and you can watch the action live... View Source

Kobo announced an official remote control for its e-readers, allowing you to turn the page easily even when you don’t have the e-reader to hand. While it won’t quite allow you to read ebooks hands-free, it will help if you’re trying to read while your hands are otherwise occupied by cooking or cats, or when you just have the e-reader propped up at a distance on a treadmill or coffee table. An incl... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. removed a Facebook group used to share information about Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Chicago after a request from the Justice Department... View Source

Waymo is bringing its autonomous taxis to the UK in 2026, marking the company’s first major expansion outside of the US. Waymo has selected the mobility company, Moove, as its fleet operations partner, and is currently working with local and national authorities in the UK to gain the necessary permissions to launch a robotaxi service in London first next year. Right now, you won’t find any fully d... View Source

Satellite data reveal that a weak region in Earth's magnetic field has grown by an area roughly half the size of continental Europe in the last 10 years... View Source

Have you ever wanted a DJI Osmo Pocket built into your phone? Honor has announced what it’s calling the “Robot Phone,” a concept device with an AI-enabled, gimbal-mounted camera that unfolds from the phone’s rear and can shoot photos and film video in any direction. The phone — so far only seen in CGI form in a teaser video, with no glimpse of real hardware just yet — looks like a typical, albeit... View Source

The cybersecurity company F5 Inc. said Wednesday that suspected nation-state hackers breached its networks, gaining “long-term, persistent access” to certain systems and stealing some source code... View Source

In a change of strategy compared to last year (and as it teased earlier), Apple has announced its new entry-level 14-inch M5 MacBook Pro separately from the upcoming M5 Pro and M5 Max versions. The latest model starts at $1,599, the same as last year's M4-powered model. It arrives alongside new 11- and 13-inch iPad Pros and a refreshed Apple Vision Pro that have the same M5 processor. In the past,... View Source

Satellites recorded the largest ocean swells ever seen from space, highlighting how massive waves can act as storm “messengers,” carrying a storm’s power across entire oceans... View Source

There’s also a new Dual Knit Strap that can be purchased for $99. | Image: Apple Apple just revealed that the Vision Pro headset is getting upgraded to an M5 chip. There’s also a new strap called the Dual Knit Band, which the company says will “help users achieve an even more comfortable fit.” The M5 headsets will be available starting October 22nd for the same $3,499. But aside from the chip upgr... View Source

Walmart Inc. is on track to join the “elite” crop of companies with a trillion-dollar valuation after its announced partnership with OpenAI powered the stock to a record high, according to Mizuho analyst David Bellinger... View Source

Apple has introduced an upgraded version of its Vision Pro headset that's powered by the company's M5 chip, its latest silicon that will also come with the new iPad Pro and MacBook Pro. The first generation of the headset was equipped with Apple's M2, so you can expect this device to be faster and come with more capabilities. Apple hasn't budged the price from $3,499 with 256GB... View Source

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Last year’s iPad Pro was a huge redesign. Apple just announced a new model of its best and highest-end tablet, the iPad Pro. The new device comes with a couple of internal upgrades over the M4-powered model, most notably a brand-new chip, the M5. Apple says the chip brings “up to 3.5x the AI performance” of last year’s Pro, whatever that means, along with big improvements in various video tasks. A... View Source

Turkey will hold its first 5G spectrum auction on Thursday, in a deal worth at least $2.13 billion that’s expected to launch a new round of network spending by the country’s mobile operators... View Source

Ad-free podcasts are now officially available for Verge subscribers! There are a few steps to follow to set up ad-free feeds, so read on for instructions.  If you’re not yet a Verge subscriber but would like access to ad-free listening, you can go here. Like with all other subscription perks, subscribers can manage and update their settings in their account preferences page at any time.  Wher... View Source

For all the big US banks predict efficiencies from artificial intelligence, they haven’t led to significant job cuts — yet... View Source

Japan's government has asked OpenAI not to infringe on anime and manga content that it called "irreplaceable treasures," according to a report from ITMedia seen by IGN. The request was made by a key minister in charge of AI and IP in response to numerous videos from OpenAI's Sora 2 generator that use copyrighted material from Japanese studios.  "We have requested Open... View Source

Beneath the shadow of Chile's Licancabur volcano, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) peers into the coldest and most distant reaches of the universe... View Source

In 2014, Time announced the “Transgender Tipping Point.” The perilous conditions trans people are facing right now probably weren’t the progress the publication had in mind. In the US, state legislators and even the president are on the attack, while in the UK, J.K. Rowling is proudly bankrolling hate campaigns and the government just issued the Cass Review, a sloppy and ideological hit piece targ... View Source

Investors led by BlackRock Inc.’s Global Infrastructure Partners agreed to buy Aligned Data Centers in a deal that values the company at $40 billion, including debt... View Source

ITVX’s perpetual real-time broadcast from the International Space Station is awe-inspiring … until it gets boring. But even though it’s hard to watch for long, it’s a humbling reminder of who we areI realise that, at this point, there are already far too many shows. Every channel, every streaming service is teeming with content demanding your attention, and there are simply too few hours in the da... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Omar El Chmouri and Saritha Rai report from Sam Altman’s (virtual) appearance in Dubai... View Source

An airplane takes off from Reagan National Airport on the ninth day of the federal government shutdown on October 9th, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia. | Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images In May, The Verge reported that the US aviation system was so fragile that "the smallest disruption can throw the entire system into chaos." That disruption arrived on October 1st, when the federal g... View Source

Spanish executives are asking their government to back European Union plans that would force Chinese companies to hand over key technological secrets when operating inside the bloc... View Source

Thoracic surgeon Jonathan Villena explains why early screening for lung cancer is critical—even for those without symptoms... View Source

Huawei Technologies Co.’s key partners are showcasing a dizzying array of products from software to chip gear just days after US President Donald Trump threatened more curbs on China’s access to advanced technologies... View Source

NASA launched an exoplanet-hunting experiment Oct. 1 despite the government shutdown. After the mission's end on Oct. 2, news reports got a little confused... View Source

The Word concepts next to the final icon on the right. Microsoft is busy rolling out new curvy and colorful new Office icons, and now it’s revealing a set of design concepts it experimented with before finalizing these new icons. Some of the concepts are radically different from what Microsoft is shipping, with design explorations for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint that more closely resemble the Offi... View Source

A fatality involving a Xiaomi Corp. SU7 electric sedan has renewed scrutiny of flush car door handles and is likely to reinforce China’s push for tougher safety standards... View Source

Astrophysicist proposes a ‘radically mundane’ theory for why humans have yet to encounter extraterrestrialsFor centuries, great thinkers have pondered why, given the hundreds of billions of planets in the galaxy, we have seen no compelling signs of intelligent life beyond Earth.Now, scientists are mulling an intriguing possibility: if aliens exist, their technology may be only marginally better th... View Source

London’s iconic black cabs could soon face a new rival: Waymo. The Alphabet-owned company said today it intends to launch a fully driverless robotaxi service in London, starting in 2026 — marking its first effort to expand internationally. The UK currently doesn’t have any fully driverless vehicles on the road. The government has said it will start piloting fully driverless ridehail services in sp... View Source

ASML Holding NV is “well prepared” for China’s curbs on exports of rare earths even as the impact on the wider chips ecosystem is difficult to assess, Chief Financial Officer Roger Dassen said Wednesday... View Source

Apple TV dropped the Plus because everyone was already doing it, according to Cue. We have some new insight into Apple’s muddled rebrand of Apple TV Plus to Apple TV, courtesy of an interview with the company’s senior vice president of services, Eddy Cue. Speaking on The Town podcast, Cue said that no consultants were involved, and that it was a collective decision to drop the “Plus” from the stre... View Source

Nscale, a data center developer focused on artificial intelligence, has agreed to build a site for Microsoft Corp. in Texas with a capacity of as much as 240 megawatts of power, according to a statement on Wednesday... View Source

This was the last flight of SpaceX’s V2 Starship design. Version 3 arrives next year... View Source

Rakuten Group Inc. shares rose as much as 6.7% on Wednesday, the most since April 10, after Reuters reported the Japanese e-commerce firm is considering listing its credit card business in the US... View Source

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook pledged to boost investment in China during a visit to the world’s second largest economy, despite threats from US President Donald Trump to slap tariffs on its foreign-made products... View Source

ASML Holding NV’s orders beat analyst expectations in the third quarter, as demand for its chip-making machines was fueled by hundreds of billions of dollars in investment into artificial intelligence infrastructure... View Source

From being hit with punitive tariffs on Liberation Day to being selected by one of the world’s biggest tech companies to build its next generation of smart home devices, Vietnam is having a moment... View Source

Coinbase Global has invested in Mumbai-based CoinDCX as the exchange operator seeks to deepen its exposure to India and the Middle East... View Source

Apple Inc. is preparing to expand its manufacturing operations in Vietnam as part of a push into the smart home market and an ongoing effort to lessen its dependence on China... View Source

Samsung is back with another event this fall, which it has dubbed Worlds Wide Open. The company said that it will use this opportunity to officially unveil its Android XR headset, internally known as Project Moohan. The livestreamed event will take place on Tuesday, October 21 at 10PM ET and you can watch either on Samsung's website or on its YouTube channel. It's possible that Sams... View Source

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought—and possibly more than once... View Source

Samsung is finally about to reveal more details about its Project Moohan mixed reality headset. The company just announced a new “Worlds Wide Open” Galaxy event that will take place on October 21st at 10PM ET, where it’s promising to reveal details about the device. The headset will run on Android XR, a new mixed reality platform developed by Samsung, Google, and Qualcomm, and Samsung says that it... View Source

DirecTV will begin replacing your TV's screensaver with AI-generated ads thanks to a new partnership. The entertainment brand is working with Glance, an AI company that has received backing from Google and developed an on-device AI tool alongside the tech giant. The new AI-powered screensavers will begin rolling out to DirecTV Gemini devices early next year.Glance's press release about t... View Source

Living with type 1 diabetes today is leaps and bounds easier than it was decades ago. Things are only getting better... View Source

Google might have yet another Pixel with a battery problem, and this time, affecting the brand new Pixel 10 Pro Fold. In a video published today, YouTuber JerryRigEverything, aka Zack Nelson, subjected the foldable to his usual durability tests, but as he’s filming his bend test — after having already broken the phone open — the battery expands, appears to overheat, emits enough smoke to set off a... View Source

Gregg Mayles, the director of Sea of Thieves and designer on Donkey Kong Country, has announced that he's left Rare. News of Mayles' exit was first reported in July 2025 during a rash of layoffs and game cancellations across Xbox Games Studios, but the short poem he shared on X today makes it official. With a 36-year tenure at the studio, Mayles saw its transition from an exclusive Ninte... View Source

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Netflix is no longer just a home for TV shows, movies, documentaries, and live WWE matches — soon, you’ll be able to stream video podcasts, too. The streaming giant announced on Tuesday that it’s partnering with Spotify’s podcast studio and The Ringer to offer 16 series on its platform, including The Bill Simmons Podcast, Conspiracy Theories, as well as The Ringer’s shows on the NFL, NBA, Fantasy... View Source

SteelSeries just released a refresh of its popular Arctis Nova 7 midrange gaming headset. The Nova 7 Gen 2 offers significantly improved battery life, with an increase of around 40 percent when compared to the original version. This translates to 54 hours of use per charge, which is a mighty fine metric. There's quick-charging that can provide six more hours of use in 15 minutes at the outlet... View Source

Diabetic eye disease robs sight from millions. But there are often ways to save vision... View Source

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January... View Source

Bloomberg Tech's Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss the rising trade tensions between China, the US, and now Europe. Plus, AI bubble concerns grow according to a new BofA Survey, and Instagram adds new tighter content restrictions for teenagers. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

YouTube is bringing a wave of quality of life improvements to its platform. These visual updates and new features will roll out globally starting this week.The main update to YouTube is a redesigned video player that has made the icons and UI elements to obscure less content. This new player design will appear on mobile, web and TV devices. Some users have had access to this feature for about a mo... View Source

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Meta has removed a Facebook page dedicated to tracking Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) action in Chicago after the Justice Department got involved.  Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote on X Tuesday that Facebook had taken down an unnamed “large group page that was being used to dox and target” ICE agents after outreach from the DOJ. Meta spokesperson Andy Stone confirmed the group, whi... View Source

Central Puerto SA, a top power producer in Argentina, signed a memorandum of understanding to help power a proposed $25 billion data center in the South American country... View Source

Attorney General Pam Bondi posted on X that the Department of Justice contacted Facebook in order to have a group removed that she claimed "was being used to dox and target" US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents operating in Chicago. We reached out to Meta for confirmation and a representative said, "This Group was removed for violating our policies against coordinated harm,... View Source

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SpaceX's company town has formed a volunteer fire department, extending control over both the emergency response and permitting process as the company looks to expand Starbase... View Source

YouTube is updating the look of the video player to be “cleaner and more immersive” beginning this week. “This includes updated controls and new icons to make the viewing experience more visually satisfying while obscuring less content,” YouTube says. It started testing changes to the player earlier this year. A screenshot from YouTube shows how the new look includes rounded on-screen buttons with... View Source

Spotify is taking the video versions of some of its podcasts to another platform entirely: Netflix. Starting in the US in early 2026 (with more markets and shows to follow), Netflix will start offering sports, culture, lifestyle and true crime podcasts that Spotify Studios and The Ringer produce. Nine sports podcasts will be available at the jump, including The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Zach Lowe... View Source

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt share the Nobel economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development... View Source

SpaceX launched its Starship megarocket for the 11th time on Monday (Oct. 13), on a successful test flight that marked the end of the road for "Version 2" of the vehicle... View Source

Certain shows from Spotify Studios and the Ringer, including Bill Simmons’ podcast, will begin publishing simultaneously on both services next year... View Source

In order to avoid paying billions of dollars in fines for violating the European Union's Digital Markets Act, Google is considering changing how search results are displayed, Reuters reports. EU regulators first took issue with Google's Search and Play Store businesses in March 2025, claiming it favored its own services in search results over third-party options and prevented developers... View Source

A quarter of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff is gone after the Trump administration’s latest reductions in force and earlier layoffs... View Source

Grindr Inc. said its largest shareholders are exploring an acquisition to take the company private at no less than $15 a share, confirming an earlier media report... View Source

OpenAI announced today that it is creating an advisory council centered on its users' mental and emotional wellness. The Expert Council on Well-being and AI comprises eight researchers and experts on the intersection of technology and mental health. Some of the members were experts that OpenAI consulted as it developed parental controls. Topics of safety and protecting younger users have beco... View Source

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Apple is teasing the imminent launch of a new MacBook with an M5 chip. In an X post, Apple SVP of worldwide marketing Greg Joswiak wrote that “something powerful is coming,” and a short video in the post includes the words “coming soon” and a silhouette of an Apple laptop. Joswiak’s post also includes the word “Mmmmm” — five Ms, get it? — and the laptop silhouette is in the shape of a Roman numera... View Source

Analyses of its emissions using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory indicate that the interstellar comet probably has a very different structure than comets in the solar system... View Source

A consortium made up of Bouygues Telecom, Orange SA and Iliad SA made an offer to buy most of Altice’s telecommunications assets in France for an enterprise value of €17 billion ($19.7 billion)... View Source

Kobo is making a remote control for its line of ereaders. The appropriately-named Kobo Remote costs $30 and will be available to purchase on November 4. A remote control for an ereader may seem silly to some, but avid readers will likely appreciate this accessory. It's basically a wireless page turner, so users can lay in bed and read all day without having to physically hold the device or pr... View Source

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Windows 10 is so popular that Windows 11 only overtook it in terms of usage just a few months ago. That's why I'm surprised that Microsoft is still, kind of, going ahead with its end of support cutoff today. At one point last year, I wasn't sure if Microsoft was actually going to end support for Windows 10 on time. The software giant randomly reopened Windows 10 beta testing to add new features an... View Source

Salesforce Inc. said it’s saving about $100 million a year by using artificial intelligence tools in the software company’s customer service operations... View Source

OpenAI plans to open the floodgates to more adult uses of ChatGPT starting in December, according to a new post from CEO Sam Altman. The company announced that it would add parental controls and automatic age detection features in September, and it seems like a benefit of sorting out children from adults is an ability to offer more freedom in what ChatGPT can show users. "In December, as we r... View Source

SpaceX removed about 72 tiles in 18 key locations for Starship Flight 11 and there was no catastrophic failure. This could allow SpaceX to optimize the heat shield and remove 10-20% of tiles over lower heating areas. SpaceX will choose to remain extra cautious but they can eventually reduce heat shield tiles. SpaceX is scaling ... Read more... View Source

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After shaking up the Pokémon formula with Pokémon Legends: Arceus, its successor, Legends: Z-A, pushes things even further - and it's a very welcome change of pace. With Arceus, Nintendo and Game Freak demonstrated how much more vibrant, weird, and exciting the monster catching series could become with a few key changes to the classic formula. Arceus' historical story and open-ish wo... View Source

The Trump administration sanctioned more than a hundred companies and individuals in Southeast Asia linked to online investment scams that have fleeced US victims of billions of dollars in recent years... View Source

Customer service support company 5CA has released a statement contradicting claims by Discord that it was the victim of a hack last month. On October 3, Discord disclosed a data breach that the company says included a “small number” of government IDs like driver’s licenses and passports, which some users had submitted to verify their ages. Days later the company updated its statement to name 5CA a... View Source

AMD Helios rack-scale solution. These are liquid-cooled, 72-GPU racks powering AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs, AMD EPYC CPUs (Venice) and do feature integrated UALoE scale-up connectivity. Oracle buying 50K MI450 for 2026. Is that about $2 billion. The AMD Helios is a next-generation, open-standard, rack-scale AI infrastructure platform designed for large-scale AI training, inference, and ... Read... View Source

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NASA has announced a new wave of layoffs at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as the agency undergoes a sweeping "realignment" of its workforce... View Source

OpenAI will soon allow “erotica” for ChatGPT users who verify their age on the platform. In an X post on Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company will add support for mature conversations when it launches age-gating in December. “As we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our ‘treat adult users like adults’ principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults,” Altm... View Source

X has long been a hotbed for fake accounts, bots and other scammy behavior. Many of those dynamics have been exacerbated by the rise of paid verification, which boosts the visibility of anyone who pays for a subscription. Now, the company is running a small experiment that could help users better identify potentially suspicious accounts.The service is starting to test a new "about this accoun... View Source

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The weak nuclear force doesn't play by the normal rules — and, in fact, it breaks one of the biggest rules of all... View Source

Google is trying to make it easier to find time to meet with coworkers and clients. It’s launching a new Gemini AI-powered “Help me schedule” feature that suggests meeting time slots based on your Google Calendar and the context of the message. You can directly insert the suggestions into your email.  The new “Help me schedule” option will automatically appear within the email you’re composing whe... View Source

LevelBlue is in advanced talks to acquire Cybereason Inc., the cybersecurity firm backed by SoftBank Group Corp. and former US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope and other observatories suggests a supervolcanic exomoon may lurk around the giant exoplanet WASP-39b... View Source

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5CA is a customer service support company that works with Discord. Recently, the chat platform said the vendor had been breached as part of a “security incident” where 70,000 government ID photos may have leaked. Now, 5CA says in a post on its website that it was “not hacked.” According to Discord, “this incident impacted a limited number of users who had communicated with our Customer Support or... View Source

Instagram will prohibit users under 18 from seeing content considered inappropriate for a PG-13-rated movie, extending teen protections that were rolled out last year... View Source

A new drug slows insulin-dependent diabetic deterioration and has sped up development of a complete remedy... View Source

Scientists say a train of CMEs could impact Earth's magnetic field Oct. 15–17, bringing a chance of northern lights across northern North America... View Source

California has enacted new legislation that aims to limit companies from charging consumers “exorbitant” fees to cancel fixed-term contracts. Assembly Bill 483 was signed into law by California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday, placing transparency requirements and fee limits on early terminations for installment contracts — plans that allow consumers to make recurring payments for goods and services o... View Source

The chief executive officer of the high-end home exercise equipment brand Tonal Systems Inc. said the company has returned to revenue growth and is expanding its retail presence in the latest attempt at a turnaround... View Source

Spotify has introduced a new "managed accounts" feature aimed at younger listeners. Initially piloted last year and launching in seven new markets, including the US, today, it allows parents and guardians with a Spotify Premium Family plan to allocate their children a dedicated profile with their own personalized recommendations and custom playlists. The idea is that the adults can filte... View Source

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Is a smartwatch better than a smartphone? Not which one is more important or which would you rather have, but simply which one is better? This is the kind of question you really never need to ask - but we're here to ask it. Why? Because Google has had a terrific year of gadget launches, from Pixel phones to Pixel Watches. For the first time ever, the Pixel lineup is a formidable competitor in ever... View Source

Microsoft Corp. will rent capacity from Nscale at a data center in Portugal, as the US tech company expands its computing resources to meet growing demand for artificial intelligence... View Source

Genetic screening can mean that people at risk of type 1 diabetes get earlier treatment and better outcomes... View Source

From glowing comets to ancient galaxies, autumn's night sky is filled with celestial treasures... View Source

Thin phones are in, and Motorola doesn’t want to miss out. It’s teasing the imminent launch of the X70 Air in China, a slim phone with an unexpectedly big battery, which we’re expecting to see launch in Europe as the Edge 70 soon too. The X70 Air is less than 6mm thick, putting it in the same territory as the 5.6mm iPhone Air and 5.8mm Galaxy S25 Edge, and weighs just 159g. Despite that, its 4,800... View Source

Startups in the Middle East raised a record $1.2 billion last quarter, defying a collapse in broader emerging market funding, as international investors wrote bigger checks for growth-stage companies, according to data platform Magnitt... View Source

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Motorola’s Razr Ultra (2025) is $999.99 ($300 off) | Image: The Verge If you’re on the fence about trying a foldable smartphone, Motorola’s Razr Ultra (2025) may be the one you’ve been waiting for, and you can pick it up for $999.99 ($300 off) at Amazon and Best Buy. Our reviewer praised its design (the wooden back panel has a layer of actual wood), and found Motorola still has the best software f... View Source

The Dutch government seized Nexperia following a US warning that the chipmaker would have to replace its Chinese chief executive officer to stay off the sanctions list, according to a Dutch court filing... View Source

Instagram is tightening the settings on its "teen accounts" to add new limits on what kids on the platform are able to see. Older teens will also no longer be able to opt out of the default stricter settings without parental approval. Meta first introduced teen accounts for Instagram a year ago, when it began automatically moving teens into the more locked-down accounts that come wi... View Source

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It's been more than a decade since there was a proper Splinter Cell game. So when Derek Kolstad, a writer best-known for creating the John Wick series, approached making the new animated Netflix adaptation, he treated it as if the story continued as the games were dormant. "I wanted to do it almost like the timeline kept going since the last game," Kolstad tells The Verge. At the outset of the sho... View Source

BCE Inc. plans to save C$1.5 billion ($1.1 billion) in costs and expand home internet services in western Canada and the US to restore growth after its share price fell by 26% over the past year... View Source

TiVo has confirmed that it has stopped selling its DVR set-top boxes, marking the end of an era that changed how we watch television forever. As first reported earlier this month by Cord Cutters News, TiVo Corporation quietly pulled its once-groundbreaking digital video recorder from its website. Holding company Xperi later confirmed that the listing was removed on October 1. “I can confirm that a... View Source