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Mining the moon for helium-3: How real is the prospect, and is there a business case for such an undertaking?... View Source

Alexa Plus is coming to a bunch of Amazon’s new and current Fire TV hardware. Just like before, you can summon the new, improved version of Alexa with your voice, but it’s designed to be much more helpful and better at fetching context-sensitive information about things happening onscreen that you might normally reach for your phone to find. The company shared some ways in which Alexa Plus superch... View Source

The embryos weren’t used to try to establish a pregnancy, but the researchers behind the technique say it could one day be used to address infertility... View Source

Months before Electronic Arts Inc. and Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund agreed to a record-breaking buyout deal, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law made a pivotal introduction... View Source

For the third generation of its Kindle Scribe line of reading-and-writing tablets, Amazon is giving the device a makeover and two new configurations. Since its introduction in 2022, the Scribe hasn’t changed much physically, with the sophomore model mostly getting a new color. This year, Amazon is launching three flavors of the Scribe. At the entry level is a model with a monochrome screen and no... View Source

This limited-time deal gets you the Canon EOS R5 Mark II with the RF 24-105mm f/4 lens kit for just $4925— $174 cheaper than Amazon's current sale price. Shoot the Orionids with ease!... View Source

The Echo Dot Max (seen center) Amazon took the wraps off its latest Echo Dot smart speaker during its fall hardware event on Tuesday. The Echo Dot Max is a new entry that updates the recognizable spherical design with a flat face housing the speaker’s control buttons and LED light ring. The Echo Dot has been overdue for an upgrade, as Amazon last revealed a new pint-sized speaker in 2022, fe... View Source

Company also introduces new smart home devices from its Blink brand. ... View Source

If you’re looking to replace your old alarm clock with an Alexa-powered modern smart alternative then, well, you’re more overwhelmed with options than ever. But a $30 saving on last year’s updated Echo Spot might make your decision a bit easier. The latest incarnation of the diminutive Spot was introduced in July 2024, and while it’s not quite available for its record low price of $45 right now, $... View Source

The first stage of Firefly’s Alpha Flight 7 rocket exploded during testing. Proper safety protocols were followed, and all personnel are safe. The company is assessing the impact to its stage test stand, and no other facilities were impacted. Firefly Aerospace’s first stage booster for its seventh Alpha rocket flight exploded on September 29, 2025, ... Read more... View Source

Science, especially when conducted remotely on another planet, is rarely black and white... View Source

Amazon just announced some new Ring hardware with upgraded 2K and 4K recording and some fancy processing tech that’s supposed to make streams look better than the competition. The new $179.99 Ring Wired Doorbell and $59.99 Indoor Cam Plus both offer 2K resolution featuring tech that Ring is calling “Retinal Vision.” There’s also a ton of 4K Ring cameras. Onstage, we saw the $249.99 Ring Wired Door... View Source

Alphabet Inc. shares are on track for their biggest quarterly gain in 20 years, the latest reflection of how investors are turning more positive on the Google parent as it strengthens its foothold in artificial intelligence... View Source

There are few things as simple yet exceedingly annoying as having to get up and turn off a light. Whether you're already comfortable in bed or live with mobility limitations, smart plugs can be a great option — especially when they're on sale. Right now, you can pick up an Amazon Smart Plug for a record-low price of $13, down from $25. The 48 percent discount comes as part of early Amazon Prime Da... View Source

China’s plan to reduce greenhouse gases will largely determine the world’s emissions trajectory, researchers say... View Source

We’re at Amazon’s fall 2025 hardware event in New York City, where the company is set to announce a bunch of new gadgets ahead of the holidays. Amazon’s teaser image for today suggested new Kindles, Echos, and maybe a TV. Whatever it is, it’s been a long time coming: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy promised “beautiful” new hardware back in February, which is when the key software they’ll be running — Alexa... View Source

Adobe Inc. said Tuesday that it’s bringing its Premiere video-editing software to the iPhone for the first time, an effort to fend off competition from a mix of mobile-friendly rivals... View Source

If your laptop simply isn’t cutting it anymore, October Prime Day might have arrived just in time. As has been the case for the past few years, laptop deals are abundant for Amazon's Big Deal Days, bringing discounts to MacBooks, Windows laptops, Chromebooks and more. But we wouldn’t blame you if you didn’t know how to figure out if that laptop you’re eyeing actually has a good discount for Prime... View Source

Microsoft is launching a Security Store that will be full of security software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions and AI agents. It’s part of a broader effort to sell Microsoft’s Sentinel security platform to businesses, complete with Microsoft Security Copilot AI agents that can be built by security teams to help tackle the latest threats. The Microsoft Security Store is a storefront designed for secu... View Source

DoorDash Inc., the largest food-delivery app in the US, unveiled a delivery robot and a smart scale for restaurants, showcasing the company’s yearslong effort to develop hardware... View Source

Would you pay $20 for an AI-powered browser? Opera is betting on it with the release of its $19.90 (per month) "next generation AI browser," Opera Neon, meant for people who use AI every day. The Norwegian company first announced Neon in May and has now launched it to a limited number of users.  According to Opera, "it's a browser built to not only let you browse the web,... View Source

The vehicle of the future is electric. It's good for the environment. It has enough room for your stuff, as long as you're coming from the grocery and not the furniture store. It's fast, it has super-responsive steering, and you can park it basically anywhere - including your living room. That's because the vehicle of the future isn't a car; it's a bike. On this episode of The Vergecast, The Verge... View Source

The startup raised $103 million from investors including Spark, Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed. ... View Source

Meta's Ray-Ban Display glasses are now on sale, but actually buying a pair will be a bit more complicated than ordering a pair of Meta's other smart glasses. That's because Meta isn't allowing online sales of its display glasses. Instead, they are only available by reservation at a handful of physical retail stores. For now, the $799 Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses are available at select Ray-Ban, Su... View Source

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A new image from NOIRLab shows telescopes on two Chilean peaks in the Atacama Desert... View Source

Nothing’s Playground tool lets users design smartphone apps with AI. Nothing says it has just taken “the first step towards an AI-native operating system.” Not exactly. Playground, Nothing’s new app store filled with user-designed, AI-generated apps, is neither Nothing’s first step, nor is it an operating system — it’s built on Android. But the idea lands, and beneath the hype, it is genuinely exc... View Source

Spotify Technology Inc. named two new co-chief executive officers as the company’s co-founder Daniel Ek transitions to the role of executive chairman... View Source

The fall tech events just won’t stop. Today, Amazon has its fall hardware event, which is likely to reveal improvements to voice assistant Alexa and some new Echo homes for it to live inside. It’s been a couple years since the Echo Show got an update, and it’s been even longer for the standard Echo. The invitation suggests we’re expecting some Kindle upgrades too — the image on the invitation is a... View Source

Scientists found new gecko species hidden in plain sight in pristine deserts of southern Africa, thanks to their loud, barking mating calls... View Source

SpaceX is targeting Oct. 13 for the 11th test flight of Starship, which will be the final launch of the megarocket's current "Version 2" iteration... View Source

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has announced that he’s stepping down as CEO, two decades after founding the music streaming service. Ek will transition to an executive chairman role at the company on January 1st, 2026, with Spotify co-presidents Alex Norström and Gustav Söderström set to step in as co-CEOs. “As Executive Chairman, I will spend more of my time on the long arc: strategy, capital allocation,... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Gao Yuan and Vlad Savov look at the rising risk appetite among investors looking for China’s potential AI winners... View Source

You'll now be able to buy some items you're looking for without leaving your ChatGPT conversation. OpenAI has launched a new feature called Instant Checkout, which is powered by Agentic Commerce Protocol, a technology it developed with Stripe. When you search for items to buy through ChatGPT, you'll be able to see which ones you can buy from within the chatbot among the products it... View Source

Scientists are testing prototypes of tumbleweed rovers in a wind tunnel that show that Mars' winds are strong enough to push them... View Source

A 3-inch touchscreen for swiping and zooming on roads and trails. Garmin’s $449.99 eTrex Touch is a rugged GPS navigator with preloaded maps for outdoor adventures. It features a 3-inch touchscreen for swiping and zooming in on roads and trails, and comes preloaded with TopoActive maps and the option to add an Outdoor Maps Plus plan ($4.99/month) for premium content like highly detailed elevation... View Source

Suspected Chinese hackers have breached email servers of foreign ministers as part of a years-long effort targeting the communications of diplomats around the world, according to researchers at the cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks Inc... View Source

Chinese authorities have green-lit reserve reports from two major lithium producers operating in the mining hub of Yichun, easing concerns around output disruptions at a time when the sector’s excess capacity is under close government scrutiny... View Source

A limited number of people will get to try out Opera’s AI browser, Neon, starting today for $19.90 per month.  The Norwegian software company first announced the “agentic browser” in May, but details were sparse. Now, we know that Opera Neon includes different AI agents that are tailored to specific tasks. One simply called Tasks acts as a workspace dedicated to a specific activity. Another c... View Source

Logitech International SA on Tuesday announced a new version of its premium wireless computer mouse with a built-in motor that brings vibrating video game-like feedback to creative apps — a quirky entry in a segment that hasn’t seen major changes of late... View Source

A smart scale does more than show your weight. It tracks metrics like body fat, muscle mass and water percentage, then syncs that data to your phone so you can see changes over time. If you want to take control of your health, the best smart scale gives you clear insights and helps you stay consistent with your goals.Some models focus on accuracy, while others support multiple user profiles or con... View Source

Asos Plc warned its full-year earnings would be at the lower end of expectations as the online fast fashion chain works on a complex turnaround plan... View Source

If you’ve shopped around for a wireless mouse at any point in the past decade, you’ve probably seen lots of people recommending a Logitech MX Master. There’s good reason for that: They aren’t cheap, but they’re usually comfortable, versatile and loaded with features designed to make working in front of a monitor all day a little less annoying. The current MX Master 3S has sat at the top of our own... View Source

If you saw the leaks, you probably already know that haptics are the big, new thing in Logitech’s $119.99 MX Master 4 wireless mouse, coming in October. No, it’s not adding rumble effects to YouTube videos or to your favorite websites (on second thought, I’d like to try that). And, it’s different from Logitech’s haptics-based click system in its Pro X2 Superstrike gaming mouse coming in 2026. The... View Source

Anthology Inc., the Veritas Capital-backed education-software provider, sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US after a failed attempt to sell the company or parts of the business outside of court protection... View Source

Kioxia Holdings Corp. anticipates demand for NAND storage will grow by roughly 20% each year as AI data center operators keep scaling up... View Source

Soaring demand for electricity will drive a $350 billion nuclear spending boom in the US, boosting output from reactors by 63% by 2050, according to Bloomberg Intelligence... View Source

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Alphabet Inc.’s Google agreed to pay $24.5 million to resolve Donald Trump’s claims that being banished from his YouTube channel after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol was illegal censorship, according to a court filing... View Source

Rebellions Inc. raised $250 million from investors including Arm Holdings Plc to mass produce its chip and speed up product development in a competitive AI market... View Source

A hacker gained access to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s computer networks for several months earlier this year and stole information about FEMA and US Customs and Border Protection employees, according to an overview of the incident... View Source

Alphabet will pay President Donald Trump $22 million as part of a settlement in a class action lawsuit brought against the company over the suspension of various YouTube accounts following the January 6 riot at the US capital, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal. The suit includes other plaintiffs whose YouTube channels were banned that will split an additional $2.5 million in settlement... View Source

Senate Bill 53, the landmark AI transparency bill that has divided AI companies and made headlines for months, is now officially law in California.  On Monday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the “Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act,” which was authored by Sen. Scott Wiener (D-CA). It’s the second draft of such a bill, as Newsom vetoed the first version — SB 1047 — last y... View Source

Chinese stocks’ recent momentum may taper by year-end as valuations stretch, market watchers say, clouding optimism that AI breakthroughs and support policies will drive a lasting rebound... View Source

YouTube has settled a lawsuit President Donald Trump filed against the company in 2021, according to The Wall Street Journal. Trump filed sweeping lawsuits against Google-owned YouTube, Meta (then Facebook) and X (then Twitter) after he was suspended from the platforms, and now all three companies have settled with the president. YouTube will pay $24.5 million, with $22 million going toward The Tr... View Source

S&P Global Ratings said it expects to cut Electronic Arts Inc.’s credit grades to junk status after the video-game maker’s buyout deal is closed, citing the expected addition of about $20 billion of debt from the transaction... View Source

Sometimes when a device fails, it fails in spectacular fashion. Daniel Rotar, who leads the ZONEofTECH YouTube channel, posted on X today that the battery on his Samsung Galaxy Ring began swelling while he was wearing it. "I cannot take it off and this thing hurts," he wrote. A few hours later, Rotar posted again that he had gone to a hospital and received help to remove the smart ring... View Source

Security researchers are shining the spotlight on a serious security vulnerability that could enable stalkers to track victims using their own Tile tags, as well as other unwanted violations of security and privacy. Research outlined by Wired shows that Tile’s anti-theft mode, which makes its trackers “invisible” on the Tile network, counteracts measures to prevent stalking. Bad actors could also... View Source

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers... View Source

SpaceX’s Starship Spaceport Plan 2.0 outlines a vision for high-cadence, airport-like spaceports enabling Starships to fly everywhere routinely. This shifts from low-volume launches to daily operations, supporting Mars colonization and beyond. SpaceX has a blueeprint for airport-like spaceports, where Falcon 9’s 2025 tempo (~every 2 days) scales to Starship’s 400+ flights/year an... View Source

The algorithm has already been tested on images from the Subaru telescope and will now be used on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory once science results begin to flood in... View Source

Windows is coming back together. Microsoft is bringing its key Windows engineering teams under a single organization again, as part of a reorg being announced today. Windows chief Pavan Davuluri, who was just promoted to president of Windows and devices earlier this month, shared the changes to Microsoft's Windows teams in an internal memo. "This change unifies Windows engineering work under a sin... View Source

Verizon Communications Inc. is in discussions with EchoStar Corp. about purchasing some of its wireless spectrum, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

In a development that should surprise no one, OpenAI is preparing to release a standalone social app powered by its upcoming Sora 2 video model, Wired reports. The app reportedly "closely resembles" TikTok, with a vertical video feed and swipe-to-scroll navigation. The catch? It will only feature AI-generated content; there's apparently no option for the user to upload photos or vid... View Source

Firefly Aerospace's seventh Alpha rocket exploded on Monday (Sept. 29) during preflight testing. The vehicle was destroyed, and Firefly is assessing the damage to its test stand... View Source

PlayStation: The First 30 Years provides a rare look at what could have been. | Image: Read-Only Memory It’s been 30 years since the original PlayStation was released in North America and Europe after first debuting in Japan nine months earlier. To mark the occasion, Sony has announced a “large-format photography book” featuring 400 pages filled with photos of prototypes of controllers and console... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Austin Carr looks at OpenAI’s effort to offer ChatGPT users a personal daily briefing — and all-knowing assistant... View Source

Tomorrow, Amazon will host an event in New York City to unveil some new hardware. The showcase kicks off on September 30 at 10AM ET. Based on what we can see in the invitation and the most common cadence of product news, we are expecting to hear about developments to the Echo line of smart speakers, at least one new addition to the Kindle collection and an update for the Fire TV. Normally thi... View Source

The First Tesla V4 cabinet Supercharger are now live. They have 0.5 MW, 3X power density and 2X stalls per cabinet. It takes AC power in and uses 16 trays of power electronics and gives DC power out. This is the tech that will make 1.2MW charging for Semi, and 0.5 MW charging for cars, ... Read more... View Source

At a major space congress in Sydney, leaders from NASA, ESA, ISRO, CNSA, and more shared visions for humanity's return to the moon, journeys to Mars and the tech shaping the future of space... View Source

Electronic Arts just announced that it is going to be acquired and taken private in a massive $55 billion deal led by an investor group composed of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF), Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners. The deal, expected to close in Q1 of EA's 2027 fiscal year (which takes place from April 1st to June 30th, 2026), isn't just a huge amount of money involving one of gaming... View Source

Robinhood Markets Inc. shares rose over 12% after Chief Executive Officer Vladimir Tenev said the online-stock brokerage has made strong inroads into prediction markets, where people wager on elections, sporting matches and other widely followed events... View Source

A phenomenon called microlightning may explain ghostly blue marsh lights... View Source

As Optus reels from another emergency call outage, the crisis has bled beyond Australia’s borders. The escalating reputational damage to the nation’s second-largest phone company is now bearing down on its parent Singapore Telecommunications Ltd... View Source

Reporter Marisa Kabas, founder of The Handbasket, posted on Bluesky today that more than 1.7 million subscribers canceled their paid Disney streaming plans between September 17 and September 23. The total allegedly includes subscriptions to Disney+, Hulu and ESPN. That falloff reportedly marked a 436 percent increase over the usual churn rate for the service. We’ve reached out to Disney+ for comme... View Source

International Space Station astronauts can breathe easy — other NASA missions not so much... View Source

Editor’s note: Amazon’s fall Prime Day event kicks off on October 7th; however, if you want to shop ahead of the two-day sale, we’ve rounded up the best early Prime Day deals you can already get. Whether you’re buying your first pair of AirPods or replacing a well-used older pair, it’s easy to understand why so many iPhone owners prefer Apple’s earbuds and headphones over other options. Apple has... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Electronic Arts’ agreement to be sold in a record-breaking leveraged buyout. Plus, Huawei plans to ramp up production of its most advanced AI chips in a bid to take market share from Nvidia. And, Peloton is preparing to launch new AI software in its latest bid to revive the struggling fitness firm. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

3 min read Joe A. Adam Presents Ring Sheared Drop (RSD) Research at 2025 ISSRDC The Ring-Sheared Drop (RSD) experiment, conducted in the Microgravity Glovebox on ISS, helps scientists learn more about Alzheimer’s & Dementia in hopes of a future cure to similar neurological diseases. NASA At the virtual 2025 ISS Research and Development Conference (ISSDRC), Joe A. Adam of Rensselaer Polytechni... View Source

The payment-processing company Stripe Inc. said it is working with OpenAI to allow US consumers to buy products directly through ChatGPT, the popular artificial-intelligence chatbot... View Source

Researchers have discovered major security flaws with Tile tracking tags, according to a report by Wired. These flaws could allow both the company itself and tech-savvy stalkers to track a user's location. The security issue could also let a malicious actor falsely frame a Tile owner for stalking, as the flaw can make it appear as if a particular tag is constantly in the vicinity of somebody... View Source

2 min read New File Download Process for PSI Large Requests A recent update to the PSI database improves how large dataset downloads are handled, resulting in more efficient processing for users. Download requests larger than 1GB are now delivered via email, rather than downloading directly from the website. This allows the system to prepare your files in the background so you can continue working... View Source

Tesla starts releasing FSD v14 Breakthroughs this week. Versions 14.0, 14.1, and 14.2 already exist and are undergoing internal testing by Tesla employees. Elon Musk describes v14 as a game-changer that is 2-3x safer than human drivers with a FSD 14.2 with a sentient feel—smooth, controlled, and consistent, unlike inconsistent prior versions. Rollout of FSD ... Read more... View Source

Saudi Arabia is accelerating plans to transform itself into a hub for gamers with its blockbuster deal to take Electronic Arts Inc. private... View Source

Meta is expanding its use of facial recognition in Europe, the UK and South Korea to crack down on accounts that impersonate public figures. The new facial recognition-powered safety features are now live on Facebook in the regions and will expand to Instagram in the coming months. The technology was initially put to use last year starting in the US, helping to identify ads that fraudulently use a... View Source

In a version of the Fujiwhara effect, Hurricane Humberto is pulling Tropical Storm Imelda eastward and away from the U.S... View Source

'Foundation' actress Cherry Jones discusses her character's tempestuous relationship with Brother Dusk... View Source

The Echo Pop is $15 off. The Echo Pop and Echo Dot are Amazon’s entry-level smart speakers, and both are currently on sale ahead of Amazon’s October Prime Day (aka Prime Big Deal Days), which officially kicks off on October 7th. Both speakers are currently discounted to their lowest prices since the middle of June, which means they’re beating their summer Prime Day prices. Both speakers are screen... View Source

US regulators ought to welcome the ways new technologies could benefit financial firms as well as consumers, while imposing guardrails that promote safety, Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said... View Source

Microsoft is taking inspiration from the AI-driven workflows of "vibe coding" and has now set out to make "vibe working" a thing (yes, those are the words the company chose.) Does AI in the workplace even lead to worthwhile outputs? Does it mortgage our brains' ability to learn? There are many seemingly critical question unanswered. But in the meantime, sure: vibe working... View Source

From twinkling constellations to stellar life cycles, this starry skywatching quiz will test your cosmic knowledge... View Source

Weave through traffic by just moving your head from side to side. | Image: Apple Developer Ali Tanis has released the first game for iPhones and iPads that’s played using Apple’s AirPods as a wearable motion controller. The RidePods – Race with Head gameplay is relatively basic – you’re just steering a motorcycle through oncoming traffic at high speeds – but instead of swiping the screen or... View Source

Anthropic is releasing a new artificial intelligence model that is designed to code longer and more effectively than prior versions, its latest attempt to stay ahead of rivals like OpenAI in offering tools for software developers. The new model, called Claude Sonnet 4.5, is better at following instructions and can code on its own for up to 30 hours straight, the company said on Monday. By comparis... View Source

Sony has been marking the 30th anniversary of PlayStation by selling you stuff, like PS5 consoles and accessories styled after the PS1. The company has something else lined up to mark the occasion: a photography book showcasing "never-before-seen prototypes, concept sketches and design models that shaped hardware development" from the early days through to the current PS5 era.PlayStation... View Source

Apple CarPlay Ultra, as featured in the Aston Martin DBX | Image: Apple The list of car companies looking askance at Apple's newly release, all-encompassing version of CarPlay is growing longer. In an interview on Decoder, Ford CEO Jim Farley said he is taking a wait-and-see approach about whether to authorize Apple CarPlay Ultra in Ford's vehicles. After years of teasing, Apple launched the CarPl... View Source

The Trump administration is dramatically expanding US sanctions to capture subsidiaries of blacklisted companies — a crackdown that drew a swift rebuke from China, where key tech giants are already subject to stringent American trade curbs... View Source

In May, Anthropic announced two new AI systems, Opus 4 and Sonnet 4. Now, less than six months later, the company is introducing Sonnet 4.5, and calling it the best coding model in the world to date. Anthropic's basis for that claim is a selection of benchmarks where the new AI outperforms not only its predecessor but also the more expensive Opus 4.1 and competing systems, including Google... View Source

1 min readInside the Visualization: Aerosols Earth (ESD)EarthExploreExplore Earth HomeAgricultureAir QualityClimate ChangeFreshwaterLife on EarthSevere StormsSnow and IceThe Global OceanScience at WorkEarth Science at WorkTechnology and InnovationPowering BusinessMultimediaImage CollectionsVideosDataFor ResearchersAbout Us NASA uses satellites, ground measurements, and powerful computer models to... View Source

Death to the Chig! We take a look back at this pioneering TV show on its 30th birthday... View Source

Anthropic's latest AI model spent 30 hours running by itself to code a chat app akin to Slack or Teams. It spat out about 11,000 lines of code, according to Anthropic, and it only stopped running when it had completed the task. The model, Claude Sonnet 4.5, was announced today, and its ability to operate autonomously for 30 hours straight is a huge jump forward. Before, the company's Opus 4 model... View Source

DeepSeek updated an experimental AI model Monday in what it called a step toward next-generation artificial intelligence... View Source

The iRobot Roomba 104 robot vacuum is on sale for $150 just ahead of October's Prime Day. That's a nice little discount of 40 percent, which represents a savings of $100. This is a newer version of the unit that topped our list of the best budget robot vacuums. It's an entry-level robovac that gets the job done. The cleaning motor is fairly powerful and it ships with a multi-surface brush and an e... View Source

Amazon’s Kindle Kids is currently on sale for $94.99 ($35 off). Amazon’s October Prime Day (officially called Prime Big Deal Days) starts on October 7th, but waiting a week won’t be necessary to score a great deal. Amazon has already discounted the Kindle Kids, Kindle Paperwhite Kids, and Kindle Colorsoft Kids e-readers to their lowest prices ever. All of the kid-friendly Kindles have 16GB of stor... View Source

Nearly nine years ago, when Emma Walmsley was preparing to take over as CEO of GSK Plc, she wrote in her diary that Luke Miels — then an executive at rival AstraZeneca Plc — would be “a dream appointment for this adventure.”... View Source

ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray, J. Maíz Apellániz This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image released on Sept. 12, 2025, features a cloudy starscape from an impressive star cluster. This scene is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy situated about 160,000 light-years away in the constellations Dorado and Mensa. With a mass equal to 10–20% of the mass of the Milky Way, the Larg... View Source

The new UI on the Echo Show 21 is a big improvement, but Alexa Plus needs a deeper integration with its screen-based hardware. This week, Amazon will launch new Echo hardware designed to supercharge Alexa Plus, the AI-powered upgrade to its voice assistant. I've been using Alexa Plus for the last few months as part of its Early Access program, and while the new assistant is off to a promising star... View Source

German artificial intelligence startup Black Forest Labs is in discussions to raise funding that could boost its valuation to around $4 billion, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently published a 163-page PDF showing the electrical schematics for the iPhone 16e, despite Apple specifically requesting them to be confidential. This was most likely a mistake on the part of the FCC, according to a report by AppleInsider. The agency also distributed a cover letter from Apple alongside the schematics, which is dated September 16, 20... View Source

SpaceX's Falcon 9 lit up the evening sky Sept. 28, when the expanding 'jellyfish' plume from the rocket's ascent could be seen for hundreds of miles... View Source

Anker’s new power bank features two USB-C ports and a USB-A port. | Image: Anker Anker announced its new capacious Prime Power Bank (26k, 300W) at IFA 2025 as part of a larger collection of updated Prime series charging devices. At the time, pricing wasn’t known, but the power bank is now available through Anker’s online store and Amazon for $229.99 with a temporary discount to $184 for the next s... View Source

South Africa’s top development finance institution is working with financial advisers on a possible bid of about 8.5 billion rand ($491 million) for control of ArcelorMittal SA’s business in the country, people familiar with the situation said... View Source

Anker has a bunch of new Prime charging devices available and some of them are already getting solid discounts. The lineup includes a laptop-compatible Prime Power Bank (26,250mAh, 300W). The device's Amazon page currently features a clippable coupon that will take $46 off the price, reducing it by 20 percent. That means you'll be able to snap this powerbank up for $184. This portable charger deli... View Source

NASA announced its newest class of astronaut candidates on Sept. 22, 2025, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. After the welcome ceremony, the 10 highly qualified individuals rolled up their sleeves and prepared for the next step in their journey to the stars: nearly two years of training to become flight-eligible for missions to low Earth orbit, the Moon, and ultimately, Mars. NASA a... View Source

Despite being just outside Tucson, Arizona, Biosphere 2 looks almost like a colony on another planet... View Source

Keychron is one of the biggest names in mechanical keyboards (but certainly far from the only maker worthy of your attention). If you’re interested in an upgrade for your desk, or just an additional keyboard to use during gaming or intensive typing, Woot has great deals running on a fleet of wired and wireless models, some of which have hot-swappable switches. Currently, Woot’s selection runs the... View Source

Manny Roman, CEO at Pacific Investment Management Co. (Pimco), discusses investing in AI infrastructure, global opportunities in fixed income, and why tariff uncertainties pose a risk to US stocks. He spoke Monday on “Bloomberg Surveillance.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Beleaguered video game giant Electronic Arts has agreed to a $55 billion acquisition that will take the company private. Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund (PIF), Silver Lake and Affinity Partners have reached a deal to buy EA, the company said in a statement. Some details about the proposed arrangement surfaced over the weekend. The deal, the largest-ever leveraged buyout, according to Bloo... View Source

Targeted at content creators, the Canon EOS R50 V may not be the obvious choice for budding astrophotographers. But do the features and brand name make it an affordable option for capturing the night sky?... View Source

GameSir’s new smartphone controller features buttons and colors styled after the Game Boy’s. | Image: @yoshivesmovie / X Over the past weekend at the Tokyo Game Show, GameSir demonstrated a new controller that turns your smartphone into a Game Boy. Unlike the company’s GameSir G8 Plus that offers similar functionality by clamping on to the top and bottom of a phone turned sideways recreating the e... View Source

Asahi Group Holdings Ltd. suspended some beverage shipments on Monday after a cyberattack hobbled some of the drinks company’s operations in Japan... View Source

Your AirPods may soon become your most important pieces of fitness gear. One of the AirPods Pro 3’s new features is heart rate tracking for both workouts and periodic pulse checks. Apple’s latest earbuds are equipped with photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors that shine infrared light hundreds of times per second to measure how light is absorbed in blood flow. What’s more, the AirPods Pro 3 work in t... View Source

Explore Webb Science Goddard Space Flight Center NASA’s Webb Telescope… Webb News Latest News Latest Images Webb’s Blog Awards X (offsite – login reqd) Instagram (offsite – login reqd) Facebook (offsite- login reqd) Youtube (offsite) Overview About Who is James Webb? Fact Sheet Impacts+Benefits FAQ Webb Timeline Science Overview and Goals Early Universe Galaxies Over Time Star Lifecycle Other Worl... View Source

A Nature paper describes an innovative analog in-memory computing (IMC) architecture tailored for the attention mechanism in large language models (LLMs). They want to drastically reduce latency and energy consumption during inference. The design leverages gain-cell crossbar arrays—capacitor-based memory devices made from oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (IGZO or ITO)—to store key (K)... View Source

Ancient iron-metabolizing microbes may have turned toxic oxygen into an energy source... View Source

OpenAI has rolled out some long-awaited parental controls for ChatGPT to all web users, with mobile coming “soon,” according to the company.  The controls, announced last month, allow for reducing or removing certain content — like sexual roleplay and the ability to generate images — and reducing the level of personalization on ChatGPT conversations by turning off its memory of past transcrip... View Source

Comcast Corp. named Michael Cavanagh as co-chief executive officer alongside Brian Roberts on Monday and added him to the company’s board of directors... View Source

We're only one week away from Amazon Prime Day and the sales have already started. The deals include Amazon's devices, from Kindle tablets to Echo speakers.  Take the Amazon Kindle Scribe, which has dropped to $300 from $400. The 25 percent discount brings the second-generation device back down to its all-time low price. This deal is available on the 16GB model in Tungsten (dark grey) and doe... View Source

Two Chinese astronauts installed more debris shielding on the Tiangong space station during a six-hour spacewalk on Friday (Sept. 26). It was the fourth EVA of the Shenzhou 20 mission... View Source

Google’s old logo (left) vs. its new one (right) | Image: Google Google is making the gradient “G” its new company-wide logo, according to an announcement on Monday. The new logo first began to surface across the Google app on Android and iOS in May, but soon, the design will begin to appear across all of the company’s platforms, marking Google’s first big logo change in 10 years. Google separate... View Source

Beta Technologies Inc., an electric aircraft producer, filed for a US initial public offering, disclosing growing revenue and widening losses... View Source

“Sand storm” is a hell of a name for beige. Just a few days after first teasing the upcoming launch of the OnePlus 15, the company is already showing off the phone in plenty of detail. Today OnePlus confirmed that the new flagship is getting a global launch, and over the weekend it dropped multiple photo sets on Chinese social media giving us a better look at the hardware. We now know that the pho... View Source

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with US tech executives and investors in New York on Sunday to discuss the prospects for using artificial intelligence to boost his country’s economy and military capabilities, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Electronic Arts has announced it is being acquired and taken private in a $55 billion deal involving Silver Lake, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, and Affinity Partners, which is founded and led by Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2027 and is still subject to approval by regulators and EA stockholders. The transaction was approve... View Source

Electronic Arts Inc. agreed to sell to a group of private investors in a deal that values the company at $55 billion, the largest leveraged buyout on record... View Source

X is challenging an Indian court order it says would require it to comply with millions of takedown requests without due process. In a statement, the company said it was "deeply concerned" about the ruling, which allows police officers "to issue arbitrary takedown orders through a secretive online portal" called the Sahyog.X's challenge comes after the Karnataka High Court... View Source

The Hubble Space Telescope saw a galaxy that has features of both elliptical and spiral galaxies, puzzling experts... View Source

Video game maker Electronic Arts Inc. is in advanced talks to go private at about $210 a share, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

The Food and Drug Administration plans to update the safety label for acetaminophen products, and the strongest storm on Earth this year struck several countries in East and Southeast Asia... View Source

The CMF Headphone Pro can be customized by swapping their ear cushions with alternate colors. | Image: Nothing CMF, the budget-focused sub-brand that Nothing plans to spin off into a standalone subsidiary, has launched its first pair of over-ear wireless headphones. The CMF Headphone Pro borrows features like a multi-function roller control from Nothing’s Headphone 1 that debuted in July, but whil... View Source

The $524 billion Qatar Investment Authority is stepping up its investments in the US with high-profile commitments to artificial intelligence and digital infrastructure, underscoring how Doha is keeping its economic priorities separate from geopolitical tensions in the Middle East... View Source

With each member added to a team, humans do less work—but weaver ants do better and better... View Source

OpenAI is launching parental controls for ChatGPT, which it announced following a lawsuit alleging a teenager who died by suicide this spring relied on the popular chatbot as a coach... View Source

Xiaomi Corp. said it’s confident its new iPhone rival will exceed the sales of its previous model, saying the phone saw record demand immediately after its debut on Saturday... View Source

Scientists have proposed a new explanation for Venus' giant, crown-shaped geological features, known as coronae... View Source

Huawei Technologies Co. is preparing to sharply ramp up production of its most advanced artificial intelligence chips over the next year, aiming to win customers in the world’s biggest semiconductor market while Nvidia Corp. struggles with geopolitical headwinds... View Source

If you want to upgrade your iPad experience, finding the best iPad accessories can do the trick. It's certainly much cheaper than buying a new tablet, and often times, all you need is a few well-chosen accessories to make a familiar device feel fresh again. From a slim folio for iPad that protects your screen to a Magic Keyboard case that turns it into a full-blown laptop alternative, there are do... View Source

Washington is demanding Taiwan move investment and chip production to the US so half of American demand is manufactured locally, outlining a radical shift for the global semiconductor industry... View Source

Europe’s auto suppliers are calling for new rules to ensure cars built in the region use a significant share of locally made components, a bid to protect an industry under mounting pressure... View Source

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Neptune Robotics, which makes robots that clean the underside of giant ships, raised $52 million to accelerate its artificial intelligence-fueled global expansion... View Source

Matt Miller left Sequoia Capital last December and, like many longtime venture capitalists, chose to start his own fund. He didn’t, however, take the standard VC model with him... View Source

Choose the darkest site you can find an hour before dawn twilight to observe one of the more subtle celestial effectsThis week, skywatchers can search for one of the more subtle celestial effects. The zodiacal light is the soft glow of sunlight scattered off the interplanetary dust that lies in the plane of our solar system.The dust itself comes from comets and asteroid collisions. Continue readin... View Source

KKR & Co. is investing in Infobric, a software company focused on the construction industry that’s backed by Stirling Square... View Source

The review of more than 60 scientific articles showed that microplastics, among other effects, can stimulate the formation of osteoclasts, cells specialized in degrading bone tissue... View Source

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 28 Starlink satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Station in California on Sunday, Sept. 28, 2025... View Source

South Korea study published in Nature of 8.4 million adults finds higher risks of overall, lung, prostate, thyroid, gastric, colorectal, and breast cancers — across both mRNA and viral-vector platforms Increased risk for major cancers—such as lung, liver, colorectal, gastric, pancreatic, and breast—typically worsens national life expectancy by elevating age-specific and overall mortality rates. If... View Source

A trio of Chinese hardware makers has emerged as the darlings of the A-share market this year, thanks to soaring demand for artificial intelligence computing power... View Source

More than two years after BYD Co.’s high-profile foray into the Japanese market, the Chinese electric vehicle maker is still struggling to win over drivers... View Source

Siri’s new logo. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman Apple is testing Siri’s upcoming revamp using an internal chatbot called Veritas. The company’s struggles as it tries to keep pace in the AI race are no secret. The next-gen Siri has been delayed multiple times and the debut of Apple Intelligence was met with a tepid response. Veritas gives Apple the ability to quickly develop, test, and collec... View Source

Snap is imposing a new storage limit on Snapchat's Memories feature, which has racked up impressive numbers since its introduction in 2016. According to Snap, users have saved more than one trillion Memories across its platform, and it's now introducing "Memories Storage Plans" for users who exceed 5GB of Memories. In a press release, Snap detailed that the introductory storage... View Source

Business Insider has obtained the guidelines that Meta contractors are reportedly now using to train its AI chatbots, showing how it's attempting to more effectively address potential child sexual exploitation and prevent kids from engaging in age-inappropriate conversations. The company said in August that it was updating the guardrails for its AIs after Reuters reported that its policies al... View Source

For most of his career Larry Ellison has been content to quietly let Oracle be the company, behind the company, behind the technology that makes headlines. Its biggest products being cloud computing and database products that it sells to enterprise customers like DHL, Northwell Health, and Fanatics. But, now in his 80s, Ellison has begun a second act shifting from Silicon Valley pioneer, to media... View Source

Untreated fevers during pregnancy can cause more harm than taking acetaminophen will... View Source

Martin Shkreli, better known as Pharma Bro for his price-gouging antics with AIDS medication Daraprim, is going to have to defend against claims of misappropriating trade secrets with the unique Wu-Tang Clan album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. Earlier this week, US District Court Judge Pamela Chen wrote in a decision that Shkreli has to face a lawsuit that accuses him of improperly saving copies a... View Source

Sutton believes Reinforcement Learning is the Path to to Intelligence via Experience. Sutton defines intelligence as the computational part of the ability to achieve goals. It is rooted in a stream of experience: actions taken, sensations observed, and rewards received. This era of experience forms the foundation of RL (Reinforcement Learning). AI Agents learn by ... Read more... View Source

This quiz will take you on a journey through the life cycle of stars, their classification, and the incredible processes that power them... View Source

The latest Apple silicon is about to hit the assembly lines, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. In the latest Power On newsletter, Gurman said that Apple "is nearing mass production of its next MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs and two new Mac monitors." Gurman added that these upgraded products are scheduled for release sometime between the end of this year and the first quarter of nex... View Source

Donald Trump sitting in the Oval Office. Donald Trump is no stranger to outlandish conspiracies or strange social media posts. But, by any measure, his post on Saturday night was particularly bizarre. The president posted (and later removed) a clip on Truth Social of a Fox News segment with Lara Trump detailing the White House’s announcement of the world’s first MedBed hospital and a national MedB... View Source

One of the key ways war leads to environmental harm is by leaving behind unexploded weaponry... View Source

The gaming market has matured and analysts see slower growth moving forward... View Source

This might just be one of our favorite science-themed Lego sets ever made... View Source

Expedition 73 crewmembers sequenced DNA and worked with virtual reality glasses this week, while also continuing to unpack cargo vehicles and congratulating NASA's 24th group of astronaut candidates... View Source

A still from the Critterz short film. This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the intersection of entertainment and technology, follow Charles Pulliam-Moore. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started In just a few short years, text-to-image models went from only being... View Source

The last few months, I've felt like I'm living in a cyberpunk movie. Each night, when I get ready to wind down, I reach for the remote to turn on a TV I got for free. When I hit the power button, a 55-inch screen lights up, but so does a smaller display beneath it. Widgets fill the secondary screen alongside a rotating ad that you can't dismiss. Before I can even navigate to the Netflix app, I hea... View Source

Less elegant but much more scratch resistant. As the nation's foremost FineWoven hater, I have some great news about Apple's follow-up: it doesn't suck. I've been using a TechWoven case on an iPhone 17 Pro for the past week and I have no complaints. I took it up a mountain; I stored it in the sweaty back pocket of my yoga pants on a bike ride. I carried it next to my keys, gave it to my toddler, a... View Source

Silksong resembles the original Hollow Knight in many ways, though right from the start, you can hear one key difference: Hornet. Hollow Knight's protagonist was silent, but just as Hornet was voiced in that game, as the protagonist of Silksong, she has a voice, too, and actor Makoto Koji brings a lot of personality to the role. "She's confident, she's sure of herself, she's very stoic," Koji says... View Source

Apple should release its internal ChatGPT-like app publicly to give its revamped AI system more credibility. Also: New MacBooks and external Mac monitors get closer; more on the iPhone 17 Pro’s “scratchgate” controversy; and Tim Cook’s latest memo to employees... View Source

With iOS 26, Apple has expanded its native call recording feature with transcripts, Live Translation, summaries and tighter integration with Notes. It’s a more polished and useful tool than before, especially if you rely on your iPhone for interviews, meetings or important conversations. Call recording itself first arrived with iOS 18.1 in October 2024. The feature has always been region- and lang... View Source

Participants in a new study were more likely to cheat when delegating to AI—especially if they could encourage machines to break rules without explicitly asking for it... View Source

The Milky Way's closest neighbor shines in a spectacular new astrophotography portrait... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 99, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy pumpkin spice season, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Lizzo and Uniqlo and book thieves and Max Verstappen, obsessing over both Black Rabbit and The Lowdown, eating aggressively too many Pop... View Source

The effects of insufficient water are felt by every cell in the body, but it’s the brain that manifests our experience of thirst... View Source

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected methane gas on the dwarf planet Makemake, indicating that the distant body is a dynamic icy world... View Source

Germany’s Black Forest Labs Inc. is in talks to raise between $200 million and $300 million, the Financial Times reports... View Source

The first B21 Stealth bombers shoudl be combat ready for initial operations in 2026. Air Force Chief of Staff David Allvin said there are efforts to accelerate the fielding of the B21. The rumors suggest combat readiness by 2026 (initial ops) or 2027. This would be much earlier than the initial 2029 target. The B21 ... Read more... View Source

Wu-Tang’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin Disgraced pharma bro, convicted felon, and perennial challenger for America’s Most Hateable Man, Martin Shkreli will have to face a lawsuit for making copies of the Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. US District Judge Pamela Chen issued a decision on Thursday that dismissed some claims by the album’s current owners, PleasrDAO, but will allow the suit... View Source

These are some recently released titles we think are worth adding to your reading list. Get lost in Bitter Karella's splatterpunk, cosmic fever dream, Moonflow, and the new zombie apocalypse comic, Everything Dead & Dying. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/what-to-read-this-weekend-moonflow-and-everything-dead--dying-191722871.html?src=rss... View Source

Escape from Tarkov players may finally get the chance to escape from the fictional war-torn city in northwest Russia, but it won't be easy. During a live Q&A at Tokyo Game Show, Nikita Buyanov, the game's director, told the audience that there will be four endings that players can achieve, which will be determined by the playthrough's completion and progression. Buyanov added th... View Source

Nintendo’s first-party Switch 2 Pro Controller can’t be beaten when it comes to its breadth of features and comfort. But at $89.99, let’s be real, it’s way too expensive for most people. Thankfully, a controller I’ve been testing recently, which is nearly as good despite lacking a 3.5mm audio jack, is currently on sale for $40 less. The EasySMX S10, as it’s called, is available for $50.39 fr... View Source

Google first teased some enticing upgrades for its Pixel Buds Pro 2 during the Made by Google event in August. More than a month later, Google is finally rolling out the update that makes its wireless earbuds earn the Pro label. The Pixel Buds Pro 2 now get an Adaptive Audio feature in the Active Noise Control section of the Pixel Buds app. This ANC mode automatically adjusts the volume depending... View Source

A Kindbody employee discovers the company is helping an imprisoned billionaire father multiple children through surrogates and egg donors. In this episode, reporter Jackie Davalos investigates Greg Lindberg’s “baby project” and what it illustrates about America’s unregulated fertility industry... View Source

This skywatching quiz will test your meteor shower mastery — from fiery streaks to cosmic origins... View Source

Customers of Harrods Ltd., the luxury London department store, had their personal data stolen, the latest in a string of cyberattacks and IT breaches affecting major UK businesses this year... View Source

The National Labor Relations Board has withdrawn "many of the claims" it made against Apple in relation to the cases brought in 2021 by former employees Ashley Gjøvik and Cher Scarlett, according to Bloomberg. In particular, it dismissed an allegation that Apple CEO Tim Cook violated workers' rights when he sent an all-staff email that year, which said "people who leak confiden... View Source

For tots with an interest in outer space, the Lego Duplo 3-in-1 Space Shuttle Adventure set is a wonderful thing that promotes imaginative play... View Source

In this episode of IVF Disrupted: The Kindbody Story, a billionaire’s “baby project” and what it illustrates about America's unregulated fertility industry... View Source

Like many fans we are simply having fun using science to analyze the creatures... View Source

On Episode 179 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Josh Dinner for coverage of NASA's new class of astronauts and upcoming Artemis II mission to the moon... View Source

It's not quite October yet, and there are still plenty of video games set to be released before the end of the year. Even still, I'm pretty convinced that Blippo Plus will go down as the strangest release of 2025. Calling it a game might be a bit of a misnomer; it's more of an alien television simulator. The idea is that, for reasons that aren't immediately clear, you're able to tune into a TV net... View Source