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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

David Joyce, Seaport Research Partners senior analyst, says Netflix's full-year forecast reinforces that the company is still a growth stock, despite giving a forecast for the second quarter that fell short of analysts expectations. He speaks on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A Call of Duty movie is still happening, but don't hold your breath for it to hit screens any time soon. Today, the popular FPS' social media revealed that the movie's theatrical release date will be June 30, 2028.  A film adaptation of the game franchise was first revealed last year, and shortly after, we learned that Taylor Sheridan and Peter Berg would be serving as the prod... View Source

Artemis 2's groundbreaking space toilet doesn't deserve the bad press it's gotten over the past two weeks, according to mission commander Reid Wiseman... View Source

Google’s “Project Aura” will be its first Android XR glasses, expected later this year. | Image: Google, Xreal Google is reportedly partnering with Gucci to make a pair of AI smart glasses stylish enough people might actually want to wear them. According to Reuters, Gucci parent company Kering is planning to launch the glasses sometime in 2027. Google's first pair of Android XR glasses, "Project A... View Source

Elon Musk’s lieutenants have reached out to chip industry suppliers for his envisioned Terafab, early steps in an audacious and likely arduous attempt to break into the production of cutting-edge chips. Ed Ludlow has more. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Perplexity has just released Personal Computer. The software, which is available starting today for Mac, builds on the multi-model orchestration capabilities the company debuted with Perplexity Computer at the end of February. Like Claude Cowork (and, as of today, OpenAI Codex too), it's a suite of computer use agents that can work with your files, apps, connectors and the web to complete com... View Source

Starship V3 booster & ship will be ready for their first test flight in a few weeks (aka Early to mid May) . Both Starship and the Super Heavy Booster have successfully completed the static fire tests and are ready to take to the skies. Starship V3 booster & ship will be ready for their ... Read more... View Source

Netflix announced on Thursday that it will be launching a redesigned mobile app, which will include a vertical video feed, at the end of April. "This redesign will better reflect our expanding entertainment offering and make it easier for members to engage how and when they want," the company said in its Q1 2026 earnings letter to shareholders. In Thursday's letter, the company said that the lines... View Source

Katherine Bordlemay, Goldman Sachs Asset Management Co-Head of Equity Client Portfolio Management, discussed the current equity market environment at all-time highs. She emphasized that equities are benefiting from upward earnings revisions, supported by significant and durable AI investment spending projected to reach $1 trillion over the next three to four years. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Blackmagic Camera is one of the more powerful third-party smartphone camera apps available and it's now even more useful for solo creators. Blackmagic Design just announced that the latest iOS version 3.3 now supports Apple Watch, letting you control the app and monitor video remotely from your wrist. It also includes ATEM camera control so you can use your iPhone as a live studio camera... View Source

There are now 13 unsupervised Tesla robotaxi in Austin. There was a 2 months at the 8-10 unsupervised level. Three were added over the last 10 days. This would suggest about 20 by mid next week. NHTSA has reported no accidents in the Feb-Mid March timeframe. There are hundreds of Cybercabs ready roll into Austin ... Read more... View Source

If you’re struggling to get a full night of rest, a good pair of sleep earbuds can help you tune out unwanted distractions. The Ozlo Sleepbuds are one such option, and they’re currently available for $249 ($100 off) in the run-up to Mother’s Day at Amazon and Ozlo’s online storefront, which is easily the lowest price we’ve seen.  Ozlo Sleepbuds  Where to Buy: $349 $249 at Amazon $349 $249 at Ozlo... View Source

A model of the cyclic universe suggests that dark matter could be a population of black holes predating the Big Bang... View Source

Britain’s AI minister dinged OpenAI for halting a major data center project in the UK and blaming the decision on the country’s energy costs and regulation... View Source

Last month, following reporting from The Wall Street Journal, OpenAI confirmed it was working on a desktop super app that would combine ChatGPT, its Codex coding agent and Atlas web browser into one cohesive experience. OpenAI is not releasing that application today. Instead, it's pushing out a major update to Codex that significantly expands what that software can do. However, the new releas... View Source

I'm a rocket man, stabbin' my way up here alone... View Source

After a jury found that Live Nation-Ticketmaster violated antitrust law on several counts, the company warns in a blog post that the verdict "is not the last word on this matter." The company plans to renew a motion for the judge to issue a ruling against the states, claiming that they did not prove their case as a matter of law. It also awaits the court's decision on a separate motion to strike t... View Source

Pankaj Goel, co-head of technology investment banking at Citi, joins Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Markets." They discuss the rise of AI and the difficulties in the software industry. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

While I dabble in other Overwatch modes, I spend the vast majority of my time there in Mystery Heroes, a casual mode in which you load in as a random character and automatically switch to another one when you respawn. It's by far my favorite way to play Overwatch (which I do a lot!), since it helps me switch off and relax. Others play it as a warmup for competitive action. It requires a parti... View Source

An unannounced Teenage Engineering device, the KO-Amp 35, can be found over at the FCC in a new filing. The label clearly marks it as a member of the mid-range EP family instruments, which currently includes the KO-II and its spinoffs, the Riddim and the Medieval. The name suggests that TE could be getting into the budget guitar and instrument amp space, but the filing reveals very little. All we... View Source

War and an historic energy shock are tough financial stability risks to compete with... View Source

Playdate is getting a third season of curated, surprise games, Panic announced today. We don't know much beyond the fact that Season Three is officially happening, but Panic's Head of Playdate Greg Maletic said in an announcement video that it will be here "in time for the holidays" this year. Considering we had to wait a whole three years for Season Two to come out following Season One's release... View Source

Blue Origin conducted a static fire test today (April 16) with a flight-proven New Glenn booster, paving the way for a planned launch on Sunday morning (April 19)... View Source

Codex can control apps on your desktop like Tic Tac Toe. | Image: OpenAI OpenAI is beefing up its agentic coding and development system, Codex, with a suite of updates that let it use your computer, generate images, and remember from past experiences. The package of updates comes as OpenAI's rivalry with Anthropic intensifies, following the stellar successes of Claude Code and OpenAI aggressively... View Source

The US government is preparing to make a version of Anthropic PBC’s powerful new artificial intelligence model available to major federal agencies amid concerns that the tool could sharply increase cybersecurity risk, according to a memo reviewed by Bloomberg News... View Source

Love 'em or hate 'em, no modern browser is complete without robust tab support, and so too would it seem Google's AI Mode. Starting today, the company is rolling out an update to users in the US that makes the tool better at interacting and understanding tabs. To start, the next time you use AI Mode on Chrome for desktop and click on a link, the chatbot will open a new side-by-... View Source

Google is upgrading AI Mode in Chrome with a new feature that will allow you to open links to sources alongside your chat. Now, instead of automatically opening a new tab, clicking a source will open the website side by side with AI Mode, allowing you to ask follow-up questions about what's on the page. Launched last year, AI Mode is the chatbot-like search feature that lives within a tab on the l... View Source

French President Emmanuel Macron said Europe must come up with a cohesive approach to protecting children online as the bloc grapples with how to regulate social networks... View Source

If the real world isn’t grim enough for you, Ukranian developer 4A Games has your back: Metro 2039 has been announced and is scheduled to arrive this winter. And based on the developer’s first look at the title, Metro 2039 looks to be an even darker affair than previous titles in the series. A tall order, but the real-world turmoil that has enveloped 4A Games since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sou... View Source

Fireballs and meteors could be seen anytime the constellation Lyra is above the horizon... View Source

You can use the Neo as it comes out of the box, or enhance your experience with some add-on accessories. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The MacBook Neo is poised to be a top-selling laptop in 2026, thanks in large part to its affordable $599 entry price. Despite launching at a more accessible price point than Apple’s $1,099 (though often discounted) 2026 MacBook Air, the Neo makes s... View Source

Los propios expertos de la empresa de IA advirtieron que Mythos podría vulnerar los sistemas que sustentan gran parte de la computación moderna. Bancos y agencias gubernamentales se apresuran a evaluar la amenaza... View Source

Intel has unveiled its new Core Series 3 chips, the official title for its Wildcat Lake-codenamed series intended for mainstream and value-oriented laptops. Built using the same Intel 18A process as its Core Ultra Series 3 chips, they’re significantly more powerful than the previous generation and promise "exceptional battery life" and "boosted AI-ready performance." Intel says... View Source

Credit: NASA The Republic of Latvia will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 9 a.m. EDT Monday, April 20, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman will host Dace Melbārde, Latvia’s minister for education and science; Jānis Beķeris, chargé d’affaires at the Embassy of the Republic of Latvia to the United States; and Jacob Helberg, under secretary of state for... View Source

It is being reported that xAI will rent tens of thousands of GPUS to AI coding company Cursor. It is about $2.5-18 per hour for GPU rentals. For 10,000 GPUs it would be $15-40 million of rent. For 50,000 GPUs it would be $75 million to $200 million per month. If XAI was renting half ... Read more... View Source

An example image from Google. Google's Personal Intelligence feature, which lets Gemini pull data from apps like Google Photos to offer responses tailored to you, can now use that data and its Nano Banana 2 image model to create images based on your personal context. With the feature, you can use prompts like "Design my dream house" or "Create a picture of my desert island essentials" and the phot... View Source

Anthropic's new AI has banks, tech giants and governments scrambling to understand what could change for cybersecurity and the future of the internet. We show why its Mythos model is raising alarms. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Your Google Photos library could soon influence the kind of images you can generate with Gemini. After letting users personalize the AI assistant's responses with data from Gmail, Search and YouTube, Google says it's bringing that same "Personal Intelligence" to Nano Banana 2 to make it easier for users to create personalized images with the AI model.The goal is to have the dat... View Source

Blue Origin New Glenn 3 has a good static fire. They are trying to go for a Saturday or Sunday launch. They will launch the second commercial version of the AST Spacemobile direct to cellphone (DTC) communication satellite. AST Space Mobile needs 40-60 commercial operational and in position satellites to begin intermittent commercial service. ASTS ... Read more... View Source

The star is escaping the Large Magellanic Cloud for the Milky Way... View Source

The Surface Laptop 7. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Microsoft is preparing to launch new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop models in the coming months. Windows Central reports that the refreshed models will include both Intel and Qualcomm variants, with Microsoft opting for an OLED display option for the Surface Laptop this year. Microsoft is expected to launch new Surface Pro and Laptop models... View Source

Anthropic PBC introduces an updated version of its AI model, Opus 4.7, which the company says is better at software engineering and hard coding. A more advanced AI offering, Mythos, has been in the news since Antrhopic says it’s too dangerous to be released to the general public. Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow reports... View Source

We finally have a real-deal trailer for the upcoming Street Fighter movie, after a short teaser dropped at The Game Awards last year. This is nearly three minutes of fighting, silly dialogue and, of course, Easter eggs from the games. To the latter point, there's a scene of Ken beating up a car like in the bonus stages from Street Fighter II and footage of Ryu powering up one of his famous Ha... View Source

Anthropic has released its most powerful "generally available" model to date: Claude Opus 4.7. The company called it a step up from Opus 4.6 for advanced software engineering tasks, particularly in complex coding areas that in the past required more hand-holding. It's also supposed to be better at analyzing images and following instructions, and it can exhibit more "creativity" when creating slide... View Source

Ben McKenzie, actor, director and producer of the new documentary "Everyone is Lying to You For Money" is tearing into the crypto industry, arguing it thrives on speculation, avoids regulation, and enables massive criminal activity. He joined Bloomberg Open Interest with a warning that as  crypto becomes more embedded in the financial system, the risks could spill over into the real economy, setti... View Source

The open-source library and search engine Anna’s Archive has been ordered to pay Spotify and the three of the world’s largest music labels $322 million in damages after it claimed to have scraped the entirety of the streaming platform’s library of music. Spotify, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, sued Anna’s Archive in January for a slightly comical $13 trilli... View Source

Astroscale's 2027 ISSA-J mission will mark the first attempt to inspect multiple spacecraft across different orbits in a single flight... View Source

Woot is making it more affordable to own a frozen drink machine. Ninja’s Slushi that has an 88-ounce container for storing your ice-cold creations is down to $184.99 at Woot, which is a whopping 47 percent off its list price. The Slushi requires no ice, just the liquid of your choosing and a little time for it to transform into a thick, yet pourable slurry that will stay frozen in the machine for... View Source

Nadia Lovell, UBS Global Wealth Head of Global Equity Strategy, mphasized that the market is not simply overlooking these concerns but is confident in managing them. Highlighting that AI spending remains robust, particularly from hyperscale companies with nearly $700 billion in capital expenditures (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The RAM crisis has prompted another company to jack up hardware prices. Meta says it will be increasing the price of Quest headsets on April 19. The Meta Quest 3 will get a $100 hike to $599, while the Quest 3S will be $50 more expensive at $350 (for a version with 128GB of storage) and $450 (256GB). Meta is blaming the increases on the rising costs of RAM, which has skyrocketed in price due... View Source

NASA In this photo taken on April 6, 2026, a portion of the Moon’s far side is seen along the terminator—the boundary between lunar day and night—where low-angle sunlight casts long shadows across the surface. A section of Orientale Basin is visible along the upper right portion of the lunar disk, its structure subtly revealed under grazing illumination. This lighting enhances contrast across the... View Source

In the span of a few years, age verification went from an idea to standard practice on large parts of the internet. Seeking to prevent kids from accessing porn, other inappropriate content, or social media altogether, laws mandating age-gating have spread rapidly across the globe, reaching the UK, the US, Australia, France, Brazil, and many more countries. The problem comes in with exactly how to... View Source

Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton CEO, says companies need to embrace new technology such as artificial intelligence. She also talks about the importance of securing core data, the state of the consumer and oil prices. She speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance" live in Washington. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Every single tiny point on the map is a galaxy... View Source

The Olto truly rules the bike lane. | Photo: David Pierce / The Verge It was at about 36 miles per hour that I decided the Infinite Machine Olto is not a bike. Sure, it has pedals, you don't need a license to ride it in most (but not all!) places in the US, and the folks at Infinite Machine assured me it is allowed in the bike lane. But I've never used the pedals. Why would I? This thing weighs a... View Source

A beloved tech founder was found stabbed in the streets of San Francisco. The city took the blame... View Source

Spotify has a new look today for listeners on tablets. The streaming service’s updated tablet UI now provides adaptive orientation, switching between portrait and landscape layouts rather than simply resizing the interface when changing how the device is held.Spotify's tablet app now sports a collapsible sidebar so listeners can take advantage of their larger screen space when watching a musi... View Source

Moft squeezes even more functionality into its folding MagSafe wallet. | Image: Moft Moft's MagSafe wallets have long been overachievers with folding designs that double as smartphone stands. Its latest creation, the Moft Trackable Tripod Wallet, does even more. It carries forward the same functionality as Moft's original magnetic wallet that unfolds into a miniature tripod, but adds built-in trac... View Source

Gargi Chaudhuri, chief investment and portfolio strategist Americas at BlackRock, says her firm is telling investors to go back to focusing on an AI growth theme and to add inflation protection to their portfolios. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Adobe isn't the only company releasing a new AI assistant this week. Ahead of its Create event in Los Angeles today, Canva announced Canva AI 2.0. Building on its existing AI assistant, the company is billing the release as its most significant update since the platform first launched in 2013, and the culmination of years of investment to build its own foundational design models. As you might... View Source

Comet C/2025 R3 PanSTARRS is days away from its close pass of the sun during an event known as perihelion... View Source

Canva has overhauled its design and workspace suite as it attempts to become the ultimate centralized hub for AI-powered content creation. The platform announced its Canva AI 2.0 update today, introducing updated tools and new prompt-based editing capabilities that allow users to make or adjust their work by describing what they want to create to Canva's AI assistant in their own words. The update... View Source

CoreWeave Inc. is tapping the US junk-bond market for a second time in a week as the cloud infrastructure firm seizes on strong investor demand... View Source

The Osmo Pocket 4 is better at shooting in low light situations with an improved sensor and new fill light accessory. | Image: DJI Following months of leaks, DJI has announced the fourth version of its handheld stabilized vlogger camera. Unlike the Osmo Pocket 3 that debuted way back in September 2023 with major upgrades like a 1-inch sensor and a larger rotating touchscreen, the new Osmo Pocket 4... View Source

Florida’s Broward County Public Schools is currently facing a budget shortfall of $100 million, the largest deficit caused by annual student enrollment declines... View Source

DJI’s Osmo Pocket 3 gimbal-camera was a category-defining camera. Two years since its launch, everyone from vloggers to pro film makers continue to upload how-to guides and gushing reviews to YouTube. When the Osmo Pocket 4 landed at the FCC at the end of 2025 (followed by a credible leak), creator forums and Reddit threads started to chatter with excitement. Over the following months the Pocket 4... View Source

"They are truly ready for long duration space flights and lunar habitation."... View Source

Govee has announced an upgraded version of its hanging Curtain Lights Pro that can instead be used nearly anywhere you have access to an outlet or large battery. At $449.99, Govee's new Lightwall is more than twice as expensive as the $199.99 Curtain Lights Pro, but comes with more LEDs in a denser array and a self-standing aluminum frame that can be assembled in 10 to 15 minutes without the need... View Source

The European Union proposed measures to open up key Google data to rival search engines, including artificial intelligence chatbots, as the bloc seeks to rein in the power of the biggest US technology companies... View Source

Anthropic has started rolling out identity verification on Claude “for a few use cases.” The company didn’t list out those use cases in its announcement, but we’ve asked it for details and will update this post when we hear back. Anthropic says you might see a verification prompt upon “accessing certain capabilities,” asking you to verify your identity. You would have to show a valid and physical... View Source

The Meta CEO is training an artificial intelligence assistant to handle some of his duties... View Source

Spotify and the three major labels have won a $322 million default judgement against Anna's Archive, the open-source library and pirate activist group that planned to publicly release millions of music files scraped from Spotify's platform. The judgement comes after the unknown operator of Anna's Archive failed to respond to a lawsuit filed by Spotify, Universal Music Group (UMG), Warner Music Gro... View Source

California-based startup Sabi is developing a thought-to-text wearable that could usher in the cyborg future... View Source

San Francisco officials were eager to quash the doom loop narrative and insisted that Bob Lee was killed by someone he knew. But Lee’s friends and family had never heard of his accused murderer, Nima Momeni. ... View Source

A rally in technology stocks fueled a third day of gains for emerging-market equities after an upbeat forecast from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. bolstered confidence in earnings prospects for the sector... View Source

As Artemis 2 approached, my anticipation was mixed with uncertainty. Would this new Moon mission spark the wonder and excitement I'd felt during Apollo? Those doubts didn't last long... View Source

Anthropic PBC is planning to release its closely watched Mythos artificial intelligence model to UK financial institutions in the coming week... View Source

Fresh off the box office success of Project Hail Mary, Amazon MGM Studios has announced its theatrical release lineup for the next year. Most of the titles aren't likely to hit the highs of the Ryan Gosling starrer which has grossed $515 million in theaters. However, there are a number of promising releases like Spaceballs: The New One and Highlander starring Henry Cavill, both sequels to... View Source

UBS Wealth Management's France CIO Claudia Panseri discusses investing in artificial intelligence, saying exposure is focused on the US and China and "more selective" than two years ago. "We also prefer companies which are still investing using cash rather than companies issuing bonds," Panseri says on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Pip White, Anthropic's head of UK, Ireland and northern Europe, says the firm is planning to release its new Mythos model to UK financial institutions in the coming week. The artificial intelligence developer initially gave Mythos to a handful of Silicon Valley partners and Wall Street banks, arguing that the limited release was necessary because the model was so adept at spotting cybersecurity vu... View Source

You now have the power to remove short-form videos from your YouTube feed if you don’t want to see them. YouTube has rolled out the capability to set your Shorts feed limit to zero minutes, which could help you stop doomscrolling, at least on mobile. The video-sharing platform originally launched a Shorts feed limit back in October last year, but the lowest option you could choose was 15 minutes... View Source

Companies like Infosys are running their new hires through many weeks of training to bring them up to speed on new programming tools... View Source

Opera is offering a new choice for looping in an AI assistant during browsing. Today, the company introduced Browser Connector, which allows Opera One and Opera GX users to integrate either ChatGPT or Claude into the platform. The chatbots will be able to access page content while a person is browsing and will draw context for queries from the information in your open tabs. The free new feature ca... View Source

Anna Edwards, Guy Johnson, Tom Mackenzie and Adam Linton break down today's key themes for analysts and investors on "Bloomberg: The Opening Trade." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Zara owner Inditex SA disclosed a data breach at an outside firm, saying intruders gained access to information on commercial relations at the world’s biggest clothing firm... View Source

Big Tech companies say northern Spain’s AI buildout is going so well, it should be a model for other parts of the EU. For local residents, the reality is more complicated, reports Clara Hernanz Lizarraga. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Earlier this year it was revealed that Apple and Google were offering "nudify" apps on their stores despite having clear policies barring such content. Nearly three months later, such apps are not only still available, but being actively promoted on the iOS App Store and Google Play, according to a new report from the Tech Transparency Project (TTP). Many of those were labeled... View Source

TSMC booked a 58% surge in profit, a sign that the Middle East war in its first few weeks did not depress booming AI investment. Bloomberg's Charlotte Yang reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. booked a 58% surge in profit, a sign that the Middle East war in its first few weeks did not depress booming AI investment... View Source

Big Tech companies say northern Spain’s AI buildout is going so well, it should be a model for other parts of the EU. For local residents, the reality is more complicated... View Source

"Bloomberg: The Asia Trade" brings you everything you need to know to get ahead as the trading day begins in Asia. Bloomberg TV is live from Tokyo and Sydney with Shery Ahn and Paul Allen, getting insight and analysis from newsmakers and industry leaders on the biggest stories shaping global markets. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

US has total oil products production equal to Saudi Arabia and Russia combined. The US exported over 5 million barrels of oil per day last week, a record high, amid the Iran War. In aggregate, the US exported a record 12.7 million barrels of crude oil and refined products per day last week. Total extra ... Read more... View Source

Las grandes tecnológicas dicen que el despliegue de la inteligencia artificial en Aragón está teniendo tanto éxito que debería servir de modelo para otras regiones de la Unión Europea. Para los vecinos, la realidad es más compleja... View Source

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Eyeing the Richat Structure Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles Notes from the Field Blog Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble... View Source

Elon Musk is ordering equipment for the Terafab with the capacity to process 3,000 wafers per month. 36,000 wafers per year. 3-4 million chips per year. There could be similar numbers from Intel fabs in 2027 and perhaps double from each of Samsung and TSMC. This could be 10+ million chips per year in 2027 ... Read more... View Source

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. launched a new model that can be used to generate videos for developing games, as it ramps up efforts to monetize AI technologies... View Source

Successful static fires of SpaceX V3 booster follows yesterdays successful V3 starship static fire. Hopefully go for a launch in 2 weeks. First 33-engine static fire for Super Heavy V3 pic.twitter.com/m3swZHF7iQ — SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 16, 2026... View Source

House Republicans are calling for US sanctions against Chinese entities that improperly extract results from leading US artificial intelligence models to develop their own competing systems, part of a widening effort by Congress to counter China in the global AI race... View Source

Malaysia is preparing to amend its environmental laws to give authorities greater power to curb illegal electronic waste as the country seeks to avoid becoming a global dumping ground for discarded components, according to a local media report... View Source

Jesse Liu, CFO of Shenzhen‑based robotics company LimX Dynamics, says China’s humanoid robotics industry is “not crowded enough,” citing insufficient resource allocation and a shortage of reserved talent. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

ASML raised its full-year sales forecast, bringing it in line with analysts' estimates and attention is already turning to what the supplier of cutting-edge chipmaking machines can expect from 2027. Tammy Qiu, head of tech equity research at Berenberg, speaks with Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

All the Tesla and MAcRO fundamental changes that are driving up Tesla and the market. Other changes in AI. AI5 chip tapeout, Tesla FSD 14.3.1 and more... View Source

Michael McGrath, European Commissioner for Democracy, Justice, the Rule of Law and Consumer Protection, joins Ed Ludlow to discuss the EU’s proposed Digital Fairness Act, aimed at strengthening online consumer protections, and the broader transatlantic approach to regulating big tech. He speaks on “Bloomberg Tech.”... View Source

Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, joins Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Deals." OpenAI has completed a deal to raise $122 billion from investors at an $852 billion valuation, marking the company’s largest funding round to date by far and bolstering its costly push for more chips, data centers and talent. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The AI company’s own experts warned Mythos could hack the systems beneath most modern computing. Banks and government agencies are racing to gauge the threat... View Source

Canada’s finance minister plans to discuss Anthropic PBC’s Mythos model when he meets with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent this week... View Source

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said that Anthropic PBC’s Mythos breakthrough shows that the US should seek greater cooperation with China so artificial intelligence researchers in the world’s two largest economies can agree on how to safely use the increasingly powerful technology... View Source

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are BlackRock’s Russ Brownback, JLL CEO Christian Ulbrich, CFRA’s Ken Leon, Elm Wealth Founder Victor Haghani, RBC Capital Markets’ Amy Wu Silverman, Kroll CEO Jake Silverman, Barclays’ William Thompson, Portal Innovations CEO Joh... View Source

SpaceX is gearing up to take potential anchor investors in its IPO on a tour of its marquee sites across America, people familiar with the plans said, as billionaire Elon Musk’s company targets the biggest ever market debut... View Source

YouTube's time management settings now have an option to put a zero-minute time limit on Shorts, effectively removing them from your app in Android and iOS. The option is an update to the Shorts timer YouTube originally announced in October; the lowest previous option was 15 minutes. The feature was expanded in January to give parents some control over how long their kids spend scrolling through S... View Source

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer will meet with representatives from the largest US tech companies to discuss ways to keep children safe online, as global appetite to ban social media services for young users grows... View Source

Apple's MacBook Neo is a $600 (or $500 for students) shot across the bow at affordable Windows laptops, and it seems like Microsoft has ready its first response. The newly announced "Microsoft College Offer" is a bundle of Microsoft 365 Premium, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, custom Xbox controller and discounted laptop that the company thinks could woo students away from Apple's new... View Source

Experiments and supplies bound for the International Space Station launched on April 11 as part of the agency’s Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply Services 24 mission. As part of the approximately 11,000 pounds cargo that lifted off inside the company’s Cygnus XL spacecraft, NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) launched six CubeSats built by U.S. educational institutions and non-profit... View Source

Data centers linked to Alphabet Inc.’s Google are seeking to raise $5.7 billion from a junk-bond sale, in what would be the largest deal of its kind to finance the artificial intelligence buildout boom... View Source

When Amazon introduced the Ember Artline TVs in January, it didn’t have a specific date of availability to share. Now, the company is ready to supply the details: Pre-orders open today, and units ship on April 22 in the US and Canada, “with the UK and Germany to follow.” The company also announced a new version of its Fire TV Stick HD this morning, as well as some new features for its Fire TV soft... View Source

NASA NASA and Voyager Technologies have signed an order for the seventh private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, targeted to launch no earlier than 2028 from Florida. This is the company’s first selection for a private astronaut mission to the orbiting laboratory, underscoring NASA’s ongoing investment in fostering a commercial space economy and expanding opportunities f... View Source

SpaceX just conducted the first full-duration static fire test with the upper stage of its 'V3' Starship, clearing a big hurdle on its path to launch, which is expected next month... View Source

Apple's $599 MacBook Neo ($499 for students) has sent shockwaves through the PC ecosystem, and now Microsoft is responding with deals targeting students in the US. A new "Microsoft College Offer" is launching today, which will see the software giant bundle 12 months of free Microsoft 365 Premium and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate with select Windows 11 PCs that have also been discounted. Acer, Asus, Dell... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss why Anthropic has rebuffed investors' efforts to back the company with funding that would value it at more than $800 billion. Plus, Meta expands a multi-billion-dollar partnership with Broadcom to design and build custom chips. And ASML, the supplier of cutting-edge chipmaking machines, raises its full-year sales forecast as AI demand fuels growth. (... View Source

Live Nation, which operates the Ticketmaster platform, has been determined to be a monopoly. A federal jury handed down its decision today that the company violated federal and state antitrust rules. This finding won't surprise anyone who has used Ticketmaster and been sticker-shocked by their final bill. However, it's unclear what the jury’s decision will mean in practice. For starters, the... View Source

3 Min Read I Am Artemis: Rebekah Tolatovicz Rebekah Tolatovicz, a mechanical technician lead supporting Lockheed Martin, works inside the Artemis III Orion crew module in the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credits: NASA/Rad Sinyak Listen to this audio excerpt from Rebekah Tolatovicz, a mechanical technician lead supporting the Orion spacecraft’s m... View Source

FTC seal. | Image: The Verge The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and a group of eight states have announced a proposed settlement with big ad agencies that will prevent them from working together to avoid certain platforms like X based on their political viewpoints. In a complaint, the FTC argues that ad agencies violated antitrust rules by agreeing to a common set of brand safety rules, which woul... View Source

Apple Inc. and Google have continued to offer mobile apps that let users make nonconsensual sexualized images of people despite their policies prohibiting such content, according to a report published Wednesday by the Tech Transparency Project... View Source

After unveiling a 4K version of its Fire TV Stick Select at its hardware event last September, Amazon is launching the latest version of its HD dongle today. The Fire TV Stick HD costs $35, comes with Alexa+ built in and offers the redesigned experience that the company previewed at CES in January. It might be confusing, considering Amazon makes at least five different configurations of its stream... View Source

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have investigated the giant exoplanet 29 Cygni b — work that could clarify the line between planets and stars... View Source

Doug Field, who left Apple five years ago to helm Ford's multibillion-dollar bet on electric vehicles and software, is stepping down next month. Replacing him will be Alan Clarke, the ex-Tesla engineer who now leads Ford's California-based skunkworks lab. Clarke's new title will be vice president of advanced development projects, and he will continue to helm the effort to develop Ford's Universal... View Source

The European Central Bank is facing a pivotal decision at the end of the month--inflation risks are building daily as the Iran conflict drives energy prices higher. Joachim Nagel, Bundesbank president and governing council member of the European Central Bank, says the ECB is between a baseline and an adverse scenario. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Francine Lacqua on the sidelines of the IMF Spring me... View Source

For PlayStation Plus subscribers, April is going to be a little bit spooky, a tad sporty and extra squirrelly. PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium players will get access to The Crew Motorfest, Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered, Football Manager 26 Console, Warriors: Abyss, Squirrel with a Gun, The Casting of Frank Stone and Monster Train. Additionally,Wild Arms 4 will be exclusive to Premium libraries... View Source

The version posted by @realdonaldtrump/Truth Social. Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about Big Tech power plays in Washington and beyond. (And when I say beyond, I mean the great beyond, like Heaven, maybe.) If you've found your way to this newsletter from the wild, annual subscriptions are currently 50 percent off. That's $30 a year for access to an entire newsr... View Source

Tech billionaires are stepping up their efforts to boost San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan in the race for California governor, rushing into the vacuum left by Eric Swalwell’s abrupt exit amid allegations of sexual assault. Bloomberg’s Eliyahu Kamisher speaks with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Chinese phonemaker Vivo has been pushing the limits of smartphone photography in the last few years. However, the availability of its phones — like last year’s X200 Ultra, with its beefy add-on telephoto — has been intermittent in the West. The company says the X300 Ultra its first global flagship launch, although there’s still no word on a US launch or pricing at the time of writing. Like the lat... View Source

The head of the U.S. Space Force said the United States' ongoing war in Iran shows the service has become a fully "combat credible" force... View Source

Live Nation-Ticketmaster is an illegal monopolist, a Manhattan jury ruled, according to Bloomberg. The jury found the company liable on three counts: illegally monopolizing the market for live event ticketing, amphitheaters, and tying its concert promotions business with the use of its venues, Bloomberg reported. The verdict, reached after several days of deliberation, leaves the live entertainmen... View Source

Bloomberg's Michelle Davis joins Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Deals." Amazon.com agreed to acquire satellite operator Globalstar in a roughly $11.6 billion deal that would expand the services of its satellite system. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A group of researchers from across the US and the UK have conducted a study on what AI does to our brains and the results are, in a word, grim. These results were published in a paper called "AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance" which kind of tells you everything you need to know. “We find that AI assistance improves immediate performance, but it comes at... View Source

From "The Matrix" to "Tron: Legacy," these sweet sci-fi soundtracks are perfect for serious audio aficionados... View Source

The Varmblixt is a smart donut-shaped light fixture that can sit on a table or be mounted on a wall. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Ikea's popular Varmblixt lamp just got a smart home glow-up. The delightfully bulbous light now features color-changing, dimming, and smart home control. I tested the new smart lamp in my daughter's room and found it made a great bedside lamp and adde... View Source

The White House has announced that NASA will work with the Departments of Defense and Energy to put nuclear reactors in orbit and on the surface of the moon... View Source

It was an audacious bet by JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group: Taking on a record-shattering $38 billion loan package backing new Oracle Corp. data center projects in Texas and Wisconsin... View Source

Traeger gave backyard pit masters something more affordable last year with the Woodridge, but now the company is back with an even more budget-friendly option. With the Westwood series, the company offers very basic pellet grill functionality with a simplified controller and a no-frills design. You’ll still get Wi-Fi connectivity that works with the company’s app, and the Westwood grills are compa... View Source

Google is launching a new Gemini app on Mac that allows you to interact with the AI assistant without switching windows on your desktop. With the app, you can use the Option + Space shortcut to pull up a floating chat bubble, where you can ask Gemini questions and share your window. Before sharing your window, you'll need to give Gemini permission to access your system's information before sharing... View Source

When tech CEOs like Sam Altman and Dario Amodei acknowledge the risks of AI, they’re selling you a product, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Parmy Olson says. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Occasionally, you really can have it both ways. For the most part, pellet grills are great for smoking and mid-temperature cooking, but you’ll typically need other grills for high-heat searing and 1,000-degree temperatures(with a few exceptions). Sure, some pellet grills allow you to move the heat deflector for direct access to the fire pot for searing, but that’s still not a cooking experience th... View Source

Want to make the most of the long spring and summer days? Take to the air with 25% off this Potensic Atom 2 drone, complete with three batteries for an hour-and-a-half of flight time... View Source

The Senate is getting ready to vote on a bill to resurrect IRS Direct File, the free tax filing service axed by the Trump administration in 2025. On Wednesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) will seek unanimous consent to pass the Direct File Act, where it will either get fast-tracked to the House of Representatives or forced back into the standard, slow-moving lawmaking process if all 100 senators... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google released a standalone Gemini app for macOS, giving owners of Apple Inc.’s Mac computers an easier way of accessing the artificial intelligence assistant... View Source

Not content with stuffing Gemini into all of its own apps and services, Google wants you to adopt its AI assistant on desktops and laptops too. The company released a Gemini Windows app on Tuesday and it's following that up a day later with one for Macs.Google says the macOS Gemini app is a "native desktop experience" that you can access with a keyboard shortcut. By default, pressin... View Source

Two NASA astronauts had some fun during the ISS' capture of a robotic cargo spacecraft on April 13, pretending to hold onto it from into the station... View Source

The AirPods Pro 3 are $50 off, which is one of the biggest discounts we’ve seen this year. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you missed out on Amazon’s recent spring sales event, Best Buy’s Ultimate Upgrade Sale presents yet another opportunity to score steep discounts on some of our favorite gadgets. The five-day sale runs through April 19th and features deals on a wide range of te... View Source

A surge of retail investor buying has helped drive shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. to a record high as the artificial intelligence trade roars back to life... View Source

The shoe company Allbirds, famous for its wool trainers, is pivoting to AI. You read that right. The San Francisco company has plans "to pivot its business to AI compute infrastructure, with a long-term vision to become a fully integrated GPU-as-a-Service and AI-native cloud solutions provider." It's also changing its name to NewBird AI. This is subject to shareholder approval, with a vote schedul... View Source

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The Jupiter-bound spacecraft JUICE spotted the interstellar invader comet 3I/ATLAS spraying enough water into space to fill 70 swimming pools a day... View Source

Allbirds had a hit a decade ago with its Wool Runner shoes, but after a $4 billion IPO in 2021, the business never turned a profit, and sales dropped nearly 50 percent between 2022 and 2025. The company recently announced it would sell off its name and assets for $39 million to American Exchange after closing the remaining stores. That shell listing, however, still has some use as the Financial Ti... View Source

Amazon wants to capitalize on a category that Samsung pioneered. It’s also releasing a new $35 streaming stick... View Source

Snap is laying off around 1,000 staff, amounting to 16 percent of its workforce, which it will seemingly replace with AI. The cuts were announced in a company-wide memo from CEO Evan Spiegel, who added that more than 300 open roles are also being closed. Spiegel said the "incredibly difficult" decision would likely save Snap more than $500 million by the second half of 2026, in turn help... View Source

Explore This Section Earth Earth Observer Editor’s Corner Feature Articles Meeting Summaries News Science in the News In Memoriam Announcements Archives 2 min read 2026 NSTA Hyperwall Schedule NASA Science at NSTA Hyperwall Schedule, April 16-18, 2026 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #1265) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda below. THURSDAY, APRIL 16 11:00 AM Tea... View Source

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument has completed its five-year mission to build the most comprehensive 3D map of the universe to date — but its exploration of the universe continues... View Source

I've been reporting on self-driving cars for over a decade, and I've seen the technology go through many ups and downs, highs and lows. But one thing has remained remarkably the same over the years: the public just ain't buying it. Poll after poll has revealed a deep and abiding skepticism toward autonomous vehicles. People don't trust the technology, don't want to ride in cars without human drive... View Source

In a letter obtained by WIRED, the Energy Information Administration tells two senators that it plans to develop a mandatory assessment of data centers' energy use... View Source

Allbirds Inc., the once-buzzy maker of wool sneakers valued at more than $4 billion in its heyday, announced a new business plan just days before it planned to close down for good: AI computing infrastructure... View Source

Few creative software companies have embraced AI like Adobe, with the company embedding image, video, audio and vector generation tools into nearly all its apps. Now, Adobe is taking on AI apps like Gemini's Nano Banana with its new prompt-based Firefly AI Assistant. You simply describe the outcome you want and it will execute "complex multi-step workflows" across Photoshop, Premier... View Source

6 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Water ice highlighted Interstellar dust highlighted These observations made by NASA’s SPHEREx mission reveal vast frozen complexes in the Cygnus X star-forming region of the Milky Way galaxy. Water ice, shown as bright blue structures at left, exactly overlays the dark lanes of interstellar dust, shown in different wave... View Source

The Bookshop.org integration is now available for Spotify users on Android, with iOS support expected next week. | Image: Spotify Spotify is rolling out some new updates for book lovers, expanding audiobook listening features and allowing users to buy physical publications through the platform. Readers in the US and UK can now purchase printed books via a new integration with Bookshop.org on the A... View Source

Venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz poured $25 million into a pro-artificial intelligence super political action committee, boosting the industry’s war chest ahead of the November midterm elections... View Source

Most teens in the United States say that Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat aren't harming their mental health, though a slightly higher proportion report negative effects on their sleep and productivity, according to a new report from Pew Research. The report offers fresh insights into how teens perceive the effects of social media at a time when there are increasing calls to ban younger teens f... View Source

3 Min Read NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Maps Water Ice Throughout Cygnus X PIA26748 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/IPAC/Hora et al. Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Maps… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Maps Water Ice Throughout Cygnus X JPEG (1.99 MB) PIA26748 Figure A JPEG (6.64 MB) Descr... View Source

The new Artemis 2 NOVA documentary "Return to the Moon" will air on PBS Wednesday (April 15) to offer a behind-the-scenes look at the moon mission... View Source

What is this, a telephoto lens for ants? Upgrading your phone with a camera grip attachment is one thing. But doll-sized telephoto lenses that you mount on top of the rear camera? C'mon. I wrote the Vivo X300 off as a gimmick, a funny concept designed to generate attention rather than actual sales. But then I spent a weekend carrying the phone and its elaborate kit of goofy little lenses around -... View Source

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. asked a UK court to name administrators over the estate of British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, who died after his luxury yacht sank off the coast of Sicily in 2024, as the technology firm seeks to recoup about $1.2 billion... View Source

A collaboration between Spotify and Bookshop.org that allows readers to purchase physical books in the Spotify app is now live in the US and UK. Rather than positioning audiobooks as the hard copy-killer, Spotify is encouraging you to see them as complimentary to one another. First announced back in February, the new partnership with Bookshop.org appears to be an acknowledgement from Spotify that... View Source

NASA/Helen Arase Vargas NASA’s Artemis II crew – NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen – smile at friends, family, and colleagues. They shared brief remarks with the crowd after landing at Ellington Airport near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Saturday, April 11, 2026, after a nearly 10-day journey around... View Source

The Tesla_AI chip design team has taped out the AI5 chip. AI6, Dojo3 & other exciting chips in work. Tesla is working with Samsung and TSMC and they have started working with Intel chips. There are shortages of GPU, CPU, energy and memory for AI data centers. Congrats to the @Tesla_AI chip design team on ... Read more... View Source

You don’t need to understand any fancy editing terms — just describe what changes you want to make. | Image: Adobe Adobe is fully embracing AI tools that enable creators to edit their work using descriptive prompts, instead of manually using specific Creative Cloud apps. The software giant's new Firefly AI Assistant allows users to describe what they want to change by typing their own words into a... View Source

“AI that was on shaky ground at the start of the year, is back,” says Beata Manthey, head of European equity strategy at Citi, as she explains why her firm has upgraded US stocks. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Ever since Jack decided to stay behind in 2010, I've been searching for something to give me the same feeling that Lost did. I crave a big mystery with a huge cast and more secrets than I can handle, something that prompts me and my friends to share nonsensical theories about what's really going on. It's been 16 years and my search has been filled with disappointment. Yellowjackets initially seeme... View Source

Blue Origin released details about a new stock option plan in an internal communication on Tuesday. Ars was able to review the materials and connect with some employees to gather their thoughts. Some of the early reviews are not positive, with one employee going so far as to describe the plan as "pure f---king trash." And it's not hard to see why some people feel gun-shy or disillusioned. The comp... View Source

President Cyril Ramaphosa said billionaire Elon Musk could use equity-equivalence programs to meet South Africa’s racial-equity rules and roll out his Starlink internet service locally, pointing to US firms that comply through alternative investments rather than ownership... View Source

The Onn 4K Pro’s remote looks identical to its predecessor but can now be located using your voice. | Image: Walmart It hasn't been officially announced, but Walmart's website now has a listing for an updated version of its budget-friendly Onn 4K Pro streaming box that originally debuted in May 2024. Following technical illustrations that leaked less than a month ago, the listing was discovered af... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. has been threatened with an interim European Union ban on policies that allegedly block rival AI firms from operating on WhatsApp, unless the tech giant offers fixes that appease the bloc’s concerns... View Source

"In the inner corona, a region very difficult to observe, we saw slow solar wind gusts moving three to four times faster than expected."... View Source

Amazon has taken the wraps off a new Fire TV Stick HD that it says is its slimmest yet. At $34.99, the device offers a design that Amazon says is 30 percent thinner than the previous generation, along with the ability to power it directly through your TV's USB port. The new design eliminates the need to use the Fire TV Stick HD with a separate wall adapter, making it easier to travel with. But if... View Source

China’s biggest electric-vehicle battery-maker, Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd., is planning to set up a new unit to ensure its supply-chain security and stability... View Source

Images and text upload in seconds, but for bigger files Warp is too slow compared to direct device-to-device connections. I test Android phones for a living, but I write about them using a company-supplied MacBook Air. Both platforms are great in their own right, but they're not so great at talking to one another. On a handful of Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy phones you can now AirDrop files dir... View Source

South Korea emerged as ASML Holding NV’s largest market in the first quarter as the country’s memory chip makers increase purchases to address chronic shortages stemming from the artificial intelligence boom... View Source

The comet is already visible to the naked eye ahead of its perihelion passage on April 19... View Source

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is hard to explain. The best way to understand is to see it in action; a screenshot of Handsome Squidward and Bob Belcher falling in love over their shared appreciation of cannibalism makes it clear that, while it's a life sim, the game is really a joke-generating machine. Living the Dream on the Nintendo Switch gives you more tools and fewer restrictions to make t... View Source

Depository Trust & Clearing Corp., the main firm responsible for clearing US stock trades, is working with Amazon.com Inc. to move its core systems to the cloud by the end of the decade... View Source

When Microsoft tried to launch Recall, an AI-powered Windows feature that screenshots most of what you do on your PC, it was labeled a "disaster" for cybersecurity and a "privacy nightmare." After the backlash and a year-long delay to redesign and secure Recall, it's once again facing security and privacy concerns. Cybersecurity expert Alexander Hagenah has created TotalRecall Reloaded, a tool tha... View Source