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Mark Leonard resigned as president of Canada’s Constellation Software Inc. for health reasons, sending the shares to their lowest level in more than a year and prompting an analyst downgrade... View Source

Elon Musk's xAI is suing OpenAI, alleging that the ChatGPT maker has stolen its trade secrets. The lawsuit comes after the company recently sued a former employee, Xuechen Li, for allegedly stealing confidential information from the company before taking a job at OpenAI. In its latest lawsuit, which was reported by Sherwood, xAI says that Li's alleged actions are part of "a broader... View Source

Microsoft is blocking the Israeli military’s access to cloud and AI services that have been used in the mass surveillance of Palestinian civilians. Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith announced the decision in an internal memo to employees on Thursday, after The Guardian and others reported last month that the Israeli government stored recordings and data on Azure of up to “a million cal... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. agreed to pay $2.5 billion in penalties and refunds and change its process for how to cancel its Prime subscription to settle a lawsuit by the US Federal Trade Commission... View Source

Nothing is spinning off its budget brand CMF into an independent subsidiary, according to a report by TechCrunch. India will serve as the newly-formed company's headquarters for manufacturing and R&D, thanks to a partnership with one of the country's telecom operators. Nothing says this venture will create over 1,800 jobs in the country. India is actually a good choice for the HQ. The country... View Source

Tesla’s stock closing above $440 for the first time would be a key technical breakthrough when it converts resistance to support and will then pave the way for all-time highs (around $488). There can be false breakouts. The near-term targets are $450–$500, with potential surges to $600–$700 (equating to a $2T market cap) or even ... Read more... View Source

New JWST observations show Saturn's auroras dotted with dark beads and a star pattern missing two arms, puzzling astronomers... View Source

What is this, a D-pad for iPods? Have you ever thought your favorite mobile games would be improved by awkward ergonomics, a dreadful D-pad, and a couple of camera lenses blocking a third of the screen? Then oh boy, does Xiaomi have the phone for you. Today it announced its flagship 17 series phones in China, led by the 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max (any naming similarity to Apple is resolutely not a coin... View Source

Elon Musk’s xAI signed a new agreement to expand access to its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok to the federal government, the General Services Administration announced Thursday... View Source

Elon said that Tesla FSD Version 14.0 goes into early wide release next week, then 14.1 about 2 weeks later and finally 14.2. The car will feel almost like it is sentient being by 14.2. This will have ten times the parameters of FSD 13. It is supposed to be 2-3 times safer than human ... Read more... View Source

Rather than the fearsome enemies of movies like "The Terminator," as we move into the universe, AIs can be our partners, our children, and perhaps even us... View Source

The 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max both feature second screens on the rear. A critic might accuse Xiaomi of copying Apple a little too closely in its launch event for the Xiaomi 17 phones, while a fan might say the company is trying to beat Apple at its own game. Either way, it’s pretty clear that the Chinese giant had Cupertino in mind when announcing its new flagship line, even if the phones themselves a... View Source

Blackstone, Warburg Pincus and Nordic Capital are among private equity bidders looking to invest in French diagnostics provider Sebia, which could be valued at around €5 billion, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Microsoft has officially unveiled the next Forza Horizon game, confirming months of rumors that the latest entry in its consistently excellent open-world racing series will be set in Japan. Announced, rather fittingly, at Tokyo Game Show in an Xbox briefing, Forza Horizon 6 has a 2026 release date and will launch first on Xbox and PC. A few years ago it would have stayed on those platforms, but af... View Source

Steven SinacoreCredit: NASA  NASA leadership has named NASA Glenn Research Center’s Steven A. Sinacore as the agency’s program executive for Fission Surface Power with Lindsay Kaldon as deputy program executive.  Sinacore will lead a team within the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate dedicated to advancing fission surface power technology in support of lunar exploration, prov... View Source

SpaceX launched 28 of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Florida this morning (Sept. 25), on the company's 122nd Falcon 9 mission of the year... View Source

Hey there, and welcome to Decoder! I’m Hayden Field, senior AI repoter at The Verge — and your Thursday episode guest host. I have another couple of shows for you while Nilay is out on parental leave, and we’re going to be spending more time diving into some of the unforeseen consequences of the generative AI boom. Today, I’m talking with Heidy Khlaaf, who is chief AI scientist at the AI Now... View Source

Citigroup Inc. has moved close to 1,000 tech jobs to India’s business support centers following cuts to its workforce in China, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

1 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Visitors at the Minnesota State Fair get an up-close look at a Moon rock on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025. Credit: NASA/Christopher Richards  NASA brought the excitement of space exploration to the Minnesota State Fair from Aug. 21–24, offering exhibits and interactive experiences for the whole family. Led by NASA’s Glenn Resea... View Source

Cowboy is in talks to be acquired by ReBirth Group Holding, weeks after the struggling e-bike manufacturer was bailed out by the Brussels-based investor. The news was first reported by French newspaper Le Figaro, and subsquently confirmed by one of Cowboy’s co-founders. “We can confirm that discussions with ReBirth are progressing very positively, and we expect to close the deal mid-October,” Cowb... View Source

There are plenty of rivalries in the US launch industry. People who build big and brawny machines tend to have egos to match. And if you chat up the senior executives of these rocket companies off-line, they are often more than happy to say derogatory things about their competitors. But rarely are such sentiments expressed in public, without filter. Chris Kemp, the chief executive officer of Astra... View Source

CoreWeave Inc. has expanded its agreements to supply data center capacity to OpenAI by as much as $6.5 billion to a total of $22.4 billion, the latest deal to underscore the immense demand worldwide for AI computing capacity... View Source

Apple has long opposed the Digital Markets Act, which is pretty much expected for a Big Tech company. Now, a bit over a year after it came into force, Apple has asked the European Commission to repeal it, according to the Financial Times and Bloomberg. "The DMA should be repealed while a more appropriate fit for purpose legislative instrument is put in place," the company has told the co... View Source

Left to right: Moderator Brian Miske, Americas Space Leader, KPMG radio, with panelists Amit Kshatriya, NASA associate administrator; Jacki Cortese, senior director, Civil Space: Blue Origin; and Robert Lightfoot, president, Lockheed Martin Space (former NASA associate administrator) discuss balancing innovation, risk, and readiness in space during the Ohio Space Forum. Credit: NASA/Jef Janis Ohio... View Source

Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope captured a new image of Messier 82, also known as the Cigar Galaxy... View Source

Windows ML is available on Windows 11 24H2 or newer. Microsoft’s Windows ML platform is now generally available for production use, making it easier for developers to add AI to their Windows apps. In its announcement blog, Microsoft says Windows ML is supported on all devices running Windows 11 24H2 or newer, and provides a local AI inference framework that helps to build more “responsive, private... View Source

Snap Inc.’s recent rally triggered by a transformation of TikTok’s US operations has investors trading on short-term hopes that are unlikely to materialize as time goes on... View Source

Meta is starting to move more teens on Facebook and Messenger into dedicated "teen accounts" that have added parental controls and other protections for younger users. The expansion comes as the company says that "hundreds of millions" of teens are already using the accounts across Instagram, Facebook and Messenger.Meta first brought teen accounts to Instagram a year ago and be... View Source

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Since April 1999, the AeroSpace Frontiers (AF) newsletter has shared information monthly on NASA Glenn Research Center’s people, projects, and progress. If you were looking for news on any of these topics, there was a good chance you could read all about them in AF each month.  The newsletter has evolved in the las... View Source

Brain imaging is illuminating the patterns linked to productive, positive dialogue, and those insights could help people connect with others... View Source

Proton has launched a major update for its encrypted Mail app, which not only adds a refreshed layout but also includes a new offline mode. That means you’ll now have full access to your inbox when you don’t have an internet connection, giving you the ability to read, write, and compose emails. Your messages will sync once you come back online, but having access to them offline seems l... View Source

Alphabet Inc. trails behind a few other megacap technology companies in size, but the Google parent may be destined to overtake them given its strong position in artificial intelligence and other key sectors, according to MoffettNathanson... View Source

There I was, sitting on the couch in a nondescript suburban cafe, typing away on a MacBook Pro while staring off into the distance with what looked to be oversized glasses (which also were conspicuously plugged into the computer). To most people, I probably looked a bit silly. Nobody actually commented on my setup, or maybe I was just too focused to notice. From my perspective, I was looking at a... View Source

As AI music generators like Suno and Udio make it easy to churn out passable music, streamers like Spotify are getting flooded with AI-generated content, leaving audiences and artists alike to wonder what is “real” music anymore. On Thursday, Spotify announced new policies that attempt to tamp down on three problems the platform has with AI: slop, impersonation, and disclosing whether AI was used... View Source

LG Electronics Inc.’s India arm is set to launch its initial public offering to raise about 115 billion rupees ($1.3 billion) in the week beginning Oct. 6, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Kimmel’s return on Tuesday was met with a standing ovation from the live audience. | Image: Jimmy Kimmel Live! The FCC’s efforts to shut down Jimmy Kimmel’s platform have seemingly blown up in its face, with the return of Kimmel’s talk show breaking viewership records on YouTube. Tuesday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! contained Kimmel’s most-watched monologue ever on the video platform, a 28-minu... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Kurt Wagner sits down with Instagram chief Adam Mosseri to discuss how artificial intelligence will affect the video sharing app... View Source

The OnePlus 15 no longer has a Hasselblad logo on its camera. OnePlus has revealed a few details about its next flagship phone at a Qualcomm event in China: it’ll be called the OnePlus 15, and it will come with Qualcomm’s freshly announced Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset and a 165Hz refresh rate display. You didn’t blink and miss the OnePlus 14, if you’re wondering about that. The OnePlus 13 will... View Source

The Qatar Investment Authority is partnering with Blue Owl Capital Inc. to finance and invest in data centers, marking the sovereign wealth fund’s latest bet on the booming artificial intelligence sector... View Source

Cells in cow udders could act as a site for human flu and bird flu viruses to swap genes and generate dangerous novel strains... View Source

Two galaxies connected by a bridge of hydrogen gas are falling into the Virgo Cluster... View Source

If you use Proton Mail on your phone, things are about to pick up. The company is rolling out new apps for Android and iOS. The updated mobile applications are rebuilt from the ground up with a "cleaner, faster and more private experience." Proton first announced in April that it was working on the revamp. The company says the new Proton Mail lets you scroll, archive and reply twice as f... View Source

Apple says it’s having to delay bringing some product features to Europe because it’s struggling to make them compliant with the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). In a statement published on Wednesday, Apple said that DMA rules have created “more complexity and more risks for our EU users,” blaming the obligation to open Apple features to third-party devices for the delays. Features impa... View Source

From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant planets are awaiting confirmation... View Source

SAP SE has been hit by a European Union antitrust probe into whether the German software giant distorted competition for maintenance and support services related to a management program it sells... View Source

Instant cameras are popular for one simple reason: they’re fun. You can bring one to a party or event and capture a spontaneous moment, then after a couple of minutes, everyone can enjoy a physical photo instead of staring at a phone screen. The quality isn’t perfect, but those snaps have a nostalgic quality that people love.Buying one can be tricky though — you need to consider factors like price... View Source

Nscale, a developer of artificial intelligence data centers, has raised $1.1 billion in financing a week after announcing its partnership with Nvidia Corp. and OpenAI in the UK... View Source

Qualcomm has unveiled its new Snapdragon X Series chips for laptops, in addition to its new system-on-a-chip for flagship phones. The Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme chip meant for "ultra-premium" Windows 11 laptops are designed to handle "complex, expert-level workloads" and to enable fast AI processing, as well as a multi-day battery life. Meanwhile, the Snapdragon X2 Elite chips... View Source

Playground Games is launching the next instalment in the Forza Horizon franchise next year, and this time it’s set in Japan. While I was expecting Forza Horizon 6 to be announced during the Xbox Tokyo Game Show stream later today, the official Forza Horizon Instagram account revealed the news early in a teaser trailer this morning. “The Horizon Festival is heading to Japan,” reads a description on... View Source

British supermarket chain Co-op said it’s facing a £120 million ($162 million) hit to operating profit this fiscal year from a cyberattack in April that forced it to temporarily shut down a number of critical systems... View Source

HSBC says it's achieved a world-first breakthrough in deploying quantum computing in financial markets, as a race intensifies among some of Wall Street's biggest firms to embed the cutting-edge technology in their daily operations. "Is this a 'Sputnik moment' for quantum? My instinct is yes," said Philip Intallura, group head of quantum technologies at HSBC, referring to the pivotal event that spa... View Source

The CMF Phone 2 Pro was the company’s most recent cheap smartphone. Nothing has announced that it plans to spin off its sub-brand CMF, which focuses on cheaper smartphones, earbuds, and wearables, into a standalone subsidiary based in India. Founder and CEO Carl Pei announced the move on X, claiming he plans to build CMF into India’s “first truly global consumer tech brand.” Nothing is partnering... View Source

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The Muscat Stock Exchange is preparing for as many as three initial public offerings in 2026 as part of a broader strategy to boost listings and chase an upgrade to emerging market status... View Source

Ether slid below $4,000 to its lowest level in nearly seven weeks, extending a broader digital-asset rout that’s erased more than $140 billion in market value since the start of the week... View Source

Qualcomm has launched the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, which the company claims is the "world's faster mobile system-on-a-chip." It was designed for flagship devices for manufacturers and smartphone brands that don't make their own mobile platforms, with the first devices equipped with the SoC launching in the coming days. The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is powered by the company... View Source

Naver Corp. shares jumped as much as 11% after a report that the company’s fintech unit is pursuing a takeover of the operator of South Korea’s biggest crypto exchange... View Source

Apple Inc. has asked European Union antitrust watchdogs to scrap regulations intended to protect digital consumers, arguing they expose users to privacy risks and threaten to undermine innovation... View Source

ULA will launch 27 of Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband satellites to orbit this morning (Sept. 25), and you can watch the action live... View Source

The Magic 8 Pro has a dedicated AI button along the side. Honor has revealed the design of its upcoming Magic 8 Pro flagship in a selection of images shared exclusively with The Verge, confirming that the phone will include a dedicated AI button. When the Magic 8 series launches in China next month, the phones will be among the first powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset, which was annou... View Source

Taiwan is suspending chip export controls it placed on South Africa just two days ago — a sign it is uncomfortable with using the key tech export as a weapon in diplomatic disputes... View Source

For years, Taiwan has viewed its dominance in supplying countries with cutting-edge chips as a shield from Chinese aggression. Now, officials are testing out semiconductors as a diplomatic sword... View Source

An image of Wolverine’s claws from Sony’s PS5 Wolverine game. It’s been a long wait, but we finally got to see Insomniac’s take on Wolverine in action. The studio released a new trailer showing some of the surprisingly bloody superhero gameplay at Sony’s most-recent State of Play showcase. There’s no date yet, but the game — which is called simply Wolverine — is expected to... View Source

Australia will slap penalties of as much as 10% of annual turnover on digital asset platform operators that breach proposed rules, under long-awaited draft legislation released Thursday... View Source

Sony has announced new Pulse Elevate wireless speakers that you can use with your PS5, PC, Mac, and even a PlayStation Portal or smartphone. The company promises that they offer “lifelike desktop audio,” a built-in mic for voice chat, and support Sony’s PlayStation Link ultra-low latency technology. The speakers have a built-in rechargeable battery, so if you want to use them in places that aren’t... View Source

Growing enthusiasm for artificial intelligence plans at Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has once again made it China’s hottest technology stock, as investors rush back into the $420 billion internet titan... View Source

YouTube says it will now let viewers dismiss the popups and video suggestions that appear at the end of videos with a new "Hide" button. These end screen popups are a standard part of most YouTube videos, but the company says it received community feedback that viewers wanted to dismiss them so they "focus on the content they're watching." If end screens are bothering you... View Source

“The Supreme Court is Google’s last hope to avoid an Epic reckoning in October,” I wrote last week. Google apparently agrees. Today, it’s finally elevated its Epic v. Google case, the one that might fracture its control over the entire Android app ecosystem, to the Supreme Court level. Google has now confirmed it will appeal its case to the Supreme Court, and in the meanwhile, it’s asking the Cour... View Source

Australian Communications Minister Anika Wells summoned Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. to a meeting following a fatal outage at its Optus division, warning the blunder was likely to lead to major financial penalties... View Source

If you've heard that Apple's new iPhone 17 Pro models are more prone to scratches than past models, the story is not as cut and dry as it might appear. Bloomberg reported on September 19 that in-store iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro were already showing scratches, including circular marks from where the phones mounted on MagSafe stands. Now Apple tells 9to5Mac those marks aren't scratc... View Source

Podcaster Theo Von and The Pokémon Company probably don’t have a lot in common. But one thing they can apparently agree on is that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should probably stop using them to promote deportation campaigns.  The DHS posted a montage of ICE raids to X on Monday accompanied by the original Pokémon theme song and the caption “Gotta Catch ‘Em All.” The clip also feature... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Brody Ford looks at one of the downsides of Oracle’s leap into prominence as a provider of cloud computing for artificial intelligence work... View Source

Microsoft is bring yet another of its formerly exclusive games to PlayStation. During Sony's latest State of Play, the company announced that Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is coming to PS5 on December 8, 2025. Based on the trailer showed during Sony's event, the PS5 version of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, will carry over the same graphical detail and giant commercial aircraft of th... View Source

Nintendo is releasing a new Fire Emblem mobile game, Fire Emblem Shadows. The company says the game is a spinoff of the series and “introduces a new style of battles featuring role-playing and social deduction.” The company’s description of the game indicates that Shadows will have Among Us-like elements of treachery:  One of the three allies participating in each battle is secretly a treacherous... View Source

HSBC Holdings Plc said it’s achieved a world-first breakthrough in deploying quantum computing in financial markets, as a race intensifies among some of Wall Street’s biggest firms to embed the cutting-edge technology in their daily operations... View Source

Just in time for all your Halloween gaming projects, Alan Wake 2 will be the free to play for members of the PS Plus program in October. The news was announced during Sony's State of Play presentation.  The recent remake of the game showcases Remedy Entertainment's skill with tell eerie, surreal interactive stories. And the fans have responded; it's Remedy's fastest-sellin... View Source

The infection rate of one type of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales bacteria has risen by more than 460 percent in recent years. Scientists say people receiving treatment in hospitals are at highest risk... View Source

An e-bike battery featuring several smaller 18650 lithium-ion battery cells packed inside. | Image: Lumafield Lumafield has released the results of a new study of lithium-ion batteries that “reveals an enormous gap in quality between brand-name batteries and low-cost cells” that are readily available through online stores including Amazon and Temu. The company used its computed tomography (CT) sca... View Source

New investments in Canadian tech unicorn Cohere Inc. have brought its valuation to about $7 billion as businesses race to adopt artificial intelligence tools... View Source

The rumors of Marvel's Wolverine showing up during Sony's September State of Play turned out to be true after all. The trailer was our first decent look (well, first official one, anyway) at the game since it was announced back in 2021. Sony and Insomniac Games revealed a release window too: Marvel's Wolverine is coming to PS5 in fall 2026. A gruff-sounding Liam McIntyre (Spartacus:... View Source

Google’s Sameer Samat explains what’s next for Android and ChromeOS. One of the biggest stories out of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit in Maui isn’t just about Qualcomm — it’s how Google is finally merging Android and ChromeOS to create a new operating system for computers. Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon revealed that it’s finally happening, and now, a Google exec has revealed when it’s happening, too... View Source

SAP SE announced deals with OpenAI and Amazon Web Services to expand its “digital sovereignty” offerings to European governments... View Source

One of the surprise announcements during Sony's State of Play presentation today was the debut of a literary-themed game titled Chronoscript: The Endless End. It's an action-adventure game with a very cool hand-drawn art aesthetic. Players will navigate the 3-dimensional world of a mysterious manor as well as the 2-dimensional world of illustrated manuscript pages. The trailer mostly foc... View Source

The Apple Watch Ultra 2 is currently down to $649, matching its lowest price to date. If the past is any indication, Prime Big Deal Days — Amazon’s upcoming fall Prime Day event — should deliver a wave of deals on Apple devices, letting you save on everything from AirPods and AirTags to the latest iPad. But if you can’t wait until the sale kicks off on October 7th to land a bargain, you don’t have... View Source

Developments in artificial intelligence mean fund manager Ark Investment Management LLC can get by with fewer human recruits, the disruptive technology investor’s founder Cathie Wood said... View Source

Sony's lineup of gaming-focused audio devices is growing with the addition of the PlayStation Pulse Elevate wireless speakers. They work with PC, Mac, PlayStation 5 and PlayStation Portal, and they support Bluetooth and Sony's proprietary PlayStation Link Wireless connection scheme. The Pulse Elevate speakers come in white or black, and they're due to hit the market in 2026. There... View Source

Better performance, bigger battery savings. Qualcomm has formally unveiled its latest flagship SoC, destined for Android flagships in the very near future: the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. The name was revealed by way of a blog post last week, and if it seems like the company skipped forward a generation or two, that’s kind of the point. It features a third-generation Oryon CPU with boosted single- a... View Source

Walmart Inc.-backed PhonePe Ltd., India’s largest digital payments provider, has filed preliminary documents through the confidential route for an initial public offer, which may raise as much as $1.5 billion and value the fintech company at about $15 billion... View Source

One thing that Sony confirmed in advance for its September State of Play stream was a first look at gameplay for Saros, the next game from Housemarque (Returnal, Resogun). This is the first completely new project from the developer since it joined PlayStation Studios in 2021, and it opened the livestream. Creative director Gregory Louden took viewers through a peek at the journey of Arjun Devraj (... View Source

Credit: NASA NASA has selected Science and Technology Corp. of Columbia, Maryland, to support atmospheric science research and development at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Atmosphere Support is a cost-plus-fixed-fee, single-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum ordering value of $163.1 million. The contract will have an effecti... View Source

Saros, the next game from Returnal developer Housemarque, launches for PS5 on March 20th, 2026, Sony announced during its September State of Play presentation on Wednesday. Based on a gameplay trailer shown during the event, it looks like Saros takes a lot of cues from Returnal, with futuristic weapons, lots of bullets and rings filling the screen, and mysterious environments that you’ll have to n... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow look at Alibaba’s plans to ramp up AI spending past $50 billion, which sent its shares to a four-year high. Plus, OpenAI expands its Stargate data center plan with five new sites in the US. And late-night host Jimmy Kimmel is back on air with a conciliatory tone about his controversial comments and jokes about President Donald Trump. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Following the announcement of its first smart glasses with a built-in display, Meta is opening several temporary retail locations where you'll be able to demo the Meta Ray-Ban Display, their Meta Neural Band controller and the rest of the company's Reality Labs products. These new "Meta Lab" locations will offer another way to see the company's new $799 smart glasses, whic... View Source

NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, shown in this artist’s concept, orbits Earth as it studies the ever-changing universe.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab Driving rapid innovation in the American space industry, NASA has awarded Katalyst Space Technologies of Flagstaff, Arizona, a contract to raise a spacecraft’s orbit. Katalyst’s robotic servicing spacecraf... View Source

Valve has rolled out a new “personalized” menu for the Steam store that’s intended to make it easier for you to “browse the store and discover new games.”  As part of the changes, Valve combined the long column of links to the left and the blue menu at the top into one new top menu. Valve has moved recommendations into one tab “so you can explore new games and content without having to sift t... View Source

Intel Corp. has approached Apple Inc. about securing an investment in the ailing chipmaker, according to people familiar with the matter, part of efforts to bolster a business that’s now partially owned by the US government... View Source

Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days are coming up, and you can get a jump on things today. A mainstay of Prime Day sales, a pair of Blink Mini 2 cameras is on sale for only $35. That's 50 percent off, a record low and less than what you'd usually pay for one. It's also Engadget's pick for the best budget security camera. This is the newest (2024) model of Blink's budget wired model. The camera is well-su... View Source

2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Justin Link, left, and Justin Hall attach an engine onto a subscale aircraft on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025, at NASA’s Armstong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Link is a pilot for small uncrewed aircraft systems at the center’s Dale Reed Subscale Flight Research Laboratory and Hall is the lab’s chief pilot.N... View Source

The Trump administration is backing leucovorin as a treatment for autism, despite limited evidence. Some doctors and researchers are concerned... View Source

A new study suggests that, without plate tectonics and the right balance of carbon dioxide and oxygen, advanced alien civilizations may be exceedingly rare... View Source

You could even say it glows. I keep accidentally ruining regular things for myself. I already can't use a standard keyboard layout, and now I think I have to buy a really nice monitor. I've spent the last few months living with the Alienware AW2725Q, a 27-inch gaming monitor with a 240Hz 4K resolution QD-OLED panel. It's one of a spate of gaming monitors that came out this year, all bearing the sa... View Source

On this episode of Trumponomics, we look at how US workers and tech firms will be affected by the $100,000 expense, and a potential silver lining for India... View Source

Waymo has unveiled a new enterprise transportation program. The Waymo for Business service offers companies access to the brand's autonomous vehicles on a larger scale than individual one-off rides, with features such as establishing commuter programs, transporting riders to events and providing other forms of corporate travel. Waymo for Business is available in San Francisco, Los Angeles and... View Source

(Top) NASA astronaut Anne McClain performs the first series of tests of an Astrobee robot, Bumble, during a hardware checkout in May, 2019.  (Bottom) NASA astronaut McClain poses with Astrobee robots Bumble (left) and Honey during their latest on orbit activity in May, 2025.  NASA NASA is continuing the Astrobee mission through a collaboration with Arkisys, Inc., of Los Alamitos, California, who w... View Source

The four astronauts of NASA's Artemis 2 mission, who could launch on their trip around the moon as early as Feb. 5, have named their Orion capsule "Integrity."... View Source

Travellers wait in terminal 4 at Heathrow Airport. The UK’s National Crime Agency arrested a man in West Sussex in connection with a ransomware attack that caused significant flight delays last week and forced many airlines to check passengers and luggage manually. The cyberattack impacted several airports across Europe, including London’s Heathrow and Berlin’s Brandenburg. The agency shared littl... View Source

Suspected Chinese hackers are behind an ongoing cyber-espionage campaign against US technology companies and legal firms, stealing national security secrets often while remaining undetected, according to Alphabet Inc.’s Google... View Source

Valve has broadly rolled out a new Steam store menu after testing it since July. This redesign is available for the standard Steam PC client, the Steam Deck and Steam Mobile. The big news here is that the update makes it easier to find stuff you want to play, which is a good move given the clutter of the current Steam store. Everything has been streamlined, with a new search menu existing up top... View Source

Attendees are seen by the NASA exhibit at the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Friday, Oct. 25, 2019, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky Led by acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy, an agency delegation will participate in the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Sydney, Australia, from Sunday, Sept. 28 to Friday, Oct. 3. The IA... View Source

The challenge is getting this technology where it's needed... View Source

The Meta Lab LA store. Meta is just about to launch its impressive smart glasses with a display, and to give more people a chance to try them out and see its other smart glasses and VR hardware, the company is going to open new pop-up shops starting in October. The new Meta Lab shops will be located in Las Vegas and New York, and the company is bringing back its Los Angeles pop-up shop that it ope... View Source

Instagram has reached 3 billion monthly users, cementing the network as one of the most popular consumer apps of all time and leading parent Meta Platforms Inc. to put even more emphasis on the tools that keep driving growth: short-form video and private messaging... View Source

That report from a few weeks ago was spot-on. As The Information's sources tipped, Microsoft 365 Copilot is adding Anthropic's AI models. Microsoft announced today that Claude access is now rolling out for beta testers. For starters, it's being integrated into Copilot's Researcher and its agent development tool. "Copilot will continue to be powered by OpenAI's latest... View Source

The Ollee Watch One makes several Casio digital watches smarter. | Image: Ollee Watch For the first time since it launched 36 years ago, the iconic Casio F-91W digital watch is getting some smart upgrades — but not from Casio. The Ollee Watch One is a replacement mainboard for the Casio F-91W, A158W, and several other watch models that can be installed without the need for a soldering iron or any... View Source

The euphoria toward artificial intelligence is creating a strange kind of new math in the stock market: Plans for massive AI investments often lead to even larger increases in market value for the companies writing the checks... View Source

Bowers & Wilkins just released the Px8 S2 wireless headphones, a follow-up to the well-reviewed original Px8 cans. This new entry brings a bevy of updated features, many of which were pulled from the recently-released Px7 S3 headphones. They feature new audio drivers, a built-in digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and an improved digital signal processor (DSP.) This allows for a 24-bit/96 kHz hi... View Source

4 min read NASA Aircraft Coordinate Science Flights to Measure Air Quality NASA Goddard’s G-LiHT flying on the A90 flies over Shenandoah Valley in the US East Coast during the week of August 11-15. Credit: Shawn Serbin/NASA GSFC Magic is in the air. No wait… MAGEQ is in the air, featuring scientists from NASA centers across the country who teamed up with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admini... View Source

Ben Bailey has 2,000 hours of flight time, including with high-profile military helicopters. The NASA astronaut candidate may be able to leverage that experience for moon landings... View Source

Waymo is standing on business. The robotaxi operator is launching a new service called Waymo for Business, aimed at companies that may want to set up Waymo accounts for their employees en masse. This new service allows employers to manage corporate accounts, customize promo codes for big events, track their transportation budget, and monitor ride activity. Ultimately, its another instance of Waymo... View Source

Microsoft Corp. will start using artificial intelligence models from Anthropic to help power its workplace AI assistant, adding a significant partner to a product that has so far been predominantly driven by OpenAI... View Source

NASA's low-cost ESCAPADE mission will study how Mars loses its atmosphere using twin spacecraft built by Rocket Lab... View Source

Volvo plans to build a new extended-range EV at its factory in South Carolina. | Image: Getty Images As it struggles with declining sales and an uncertain regulatory environment, Volvo is hoping to realign its fortunes by overhauling its electric vehicle plans. And a big part of that is a bet on hybrid technology — or more specifically, extended-range electric vehicles (EREV). At a factory tour in... View Source

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The four astronauts of NASA's Artemis 2 mission to the moon, which could launch as early as Feb. 5, are deep in training for the first crewed lunar flight in over 50 years... View Source

Just a day after Apple announced that it was pausing the premiere of The Savant, its upcoming show about domestic extremism, star Jessica Chastain says that she disagrees with the decision. In a lengthy statement on Instagram, Chastain said that while the team at Apple TV Plus are “incredible collaborators… we’re not aligned on the decision to pause the release of The Savant.” Here’s the bulk of h... View Source

A rollback of globalization is creating new opportunities for infrastructure investing, according to the head of Macquarie Group Ltd... View Source

When it comes to cooking meat, finding that all-important sweet spot between under- and over-cooked can be tricky to get right every single time. That is, unless you’re using one of the ThermoWorks instant-read thermometers that we’ve been big proponents of for a long time. And right now our favorite one is down to a record low of $76 in select colors, as part of the brand’s fall warehouse sale. U... View Source

NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA astronaut Nick Hague watches as Robert Schmidle Pitts Aerobatics perform, Friday, Sept. 12, 2025, at Joint Base Andrews in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Hague spent 171 days aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 72. While aboard the orbital laboratory, Hague and fellow NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore completed more than 900 ho... View Source

Facebook and WhatsApp also surpassed 3 billion monthly users this year, according to Zuckerberg. Instagram now has 3 billion monthly active users, according to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. This milestone comes almost four years after Instagram reportedly hit 2 billion monthly users in December 2021, catching up to other Meta platforms. Zuckerberg announced that Facebook had surpassed 3 billion users... View Source

Waymo is launching a new product that lets businesses offer employee or event rides in its robotaxis, a move that could expand its user base while helping maximize usage of its cars on the road... View Source

Nearly 15 years in, Instagram has passed a new milestone: the app now reaches 3 billion monthly users, Mark Zuckerberg shared in a post on Threads. That's up from 2 billion monthly users in 2022. Meta doesn't regularly share monthly or daily user numbers for its "family" of apps, but Facebook reached 2 billion daily users in 2023; WhatsApp passed 2 billion monthly users in 2020... View Source

1 min read Help Map the Moon’s Molten Flows! Cooled, lava-like flows of impact melt that streamed out of Little Lowell Crater. As a volunteer for the Lunar Melt Citizen Science Project, you’ll help identify and measure rocks and craters in images like this one. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University When asteroids hit the Moon, the impacts carve out craters and with enough energy and pressure,... View Source

On September 22, 2025, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin said Boeing has started making the first F-47 airframes under the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program. This is the start of engineering and manufacturing development (EMD). Boeing has a $20 billion contract. The Boeing’s St. Louis factory been idle since F-15 ... Read more... View Source

In other words, more fire is coming, more often... View Source

YouTube will finally let you dismiss the pop-ups that fill your screen with recommendations at the end of a video. Now, when you come across an end screen, you can select a new “hide” button in the top-right corner of the video so you can finish what you’re watching without distractions. YouTube says it’s making the change in response to feedback that viewers want to be able to “focus on the conte... View Source

Patrick Drahi’s Altice France SA has attracted interest from potential buyers for the enterprise unit of French carrier SFR, as the billionaire explores ways to pare the debt load of his telecom empire, people familiar with the matter said... View Source

Portronics potentially has another reason for you to switch back to wired earbuds. | Image: Portronics Despite the best efforts of companies like DJI to shrink wireless wearable mics and make them as unobtrusive as possible, a lot of content creators still prefer a mic they can hold. So as wired headphones continue to make a comeback, Plantronics has released a pair of USB-C earbuds called the Con... View Source

CEO Daniel Alegre steers a more centrist approach at Spanish-language broadcaster... View Source

Search Live is now available for Google app users in the US, offering real-time, multimodal search, powered by AI. This feature will enable users to have real-time conversations with Google Search in AI Mode while sharing their phone's camera feed with the app. Search will be able to see and interpret what the user's camera is focused on and offer relevant links for deeper context, as we... View Source

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) missions launches from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025.Credit: NASA Lee este comunicado de prensa en español aquí. NASA and... View Source

Samsung’s Galaxy Buds 3 FE were released earlier this month for $149.99. The company hasn’t yet knocked down the price, but it’s including a free Galaxy SmartTag 2 at Amazon. The bundle saves you $30 and is available until September 28th. Samsung says both items may ship separately, so don’t worry if you receive one before the other. We haven’t tested the earbuds yet, but they’re in the same famil... View Source

Tether Holdings SA has weathered market meltdowns, regulatory troubles and an influx of new challengers. Now the crypto firm is chasing a roughly $500 billion valuation — a towering ambition, even in a private-market era awash with capital... View Source

With the arrival of iOS 26, Apple’s Live Translation feature for AirPods is now ready for use. It’s available on older models of the company’s earbuds, so you don’t need the new AirPods Pro 3 to access it. There are some hardware and software requirements though, so let’s dive into what you’ll need before you can start translating conversations. Hardware requirements Live Translation on AirPods on... View Source

Un cohete Falcon 9 de SpaceX que transporta las misiones Sonda de Cartografía y Aceleración Interestelar (IMAP, por su acrónimo en inglés) y el Observatorio Carruthers de la Geocorona, ambos de la NASA, y la nave espacial de Seguimiento de la Meteorología Espacial en el Punto de Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1, por sus siglas en inglés) de la NOAA, despega desde el Centro Espacial Kennedy de la NASA en Florid... View Source

Tesla’s stock has been stuck in narrow range. What could break it out? Full Self-Driving (FSD) software challenges, AI data center energy needs, nuclear power developments, H-1B visa reforms, and broader commentary. Tesla traders are seeing shares stuck at $440 (unlikely to break without major news), with support levels at $423–$424 and $410. Are dips ... Read more... View Source

Disney is in a tangled web of its own making. In just one week, the entertainment giant managed to anger both sides of the political spectrum, and then topped it all off with a Disney Plus price hike that made just about everyone mad. Now, Disney's facing criticism from all sides, and it may struggle to patch its relationship with many of its viewers. Disney's recent troubles started when it suspe... View Source

The US and China are edging toward a deal to resolve the future of TikTok in the US, with Oracle Corp. cast in a starring role... View Source

Following Sega’s Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios accidentally leaking the game's existence last week, Yakuza Kiwami 3 has been officially announced by the developer during its RGG Summit presentation. Like Yakuza Kiwami and Yakuza Kiwami 2 before it, Yakuza Kiwami 3 is a full remake of an early entry in the long-running series, in this case 2009’s Yakuza 3, which originally launched on the PlayStation... View Source

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The Disk Pro can be magnetically attached to the back of various devices that support it. | Image: Sharge Sharge is a brand slowly making a name for itself with eye-catching accessories that solve problems you didn’t realize you had. Its latest creation is an external SSD drive that includes a built-in cooling fan to improve its performance and longevity. It also has a bunch of extra ports so you... View Source

US stocks advanced on Wednesday, with renewed pledges of spending in artificial intelligence helping put the rally in gauges back on track... View Source

We’re anticipating deals on this year’s top tech products. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge The lead-up to Black Friday happens earlier each year, and nothing illustrates that trend more than the return of Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days. For 2025, the two-day event starts Tuesday, October 7th at 3AM ET / 12AM PT, delivering stellar deals for Prime members through Thursday, October 9th at the same... View Source

Chinese President Xi Jinping called on Xinjiang’s local government to make every effort to maintain social stability and strengthen governance, aiming to advance the autonomous region’s development... View Source

NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Sept. 24 to study the solar wind and space weather... View Source

The Nappa leather and aluminum design is slimmer than its predecessor. British audio brand Bowers & Wilkins (B&W) is launching the second generation of its flagship Px8 wireless headphones, which claim to have better sound, noise cancellation, and maintenance. The $799 Px8 S2 is available starting today, featuring an aluminum and Nappa leather design in black or grey-beige color options. B... View Source

Mindstate Design Labs, backed by Silicon Valley power players, has created what its CEO calls “the least psychedelic psychedelic that’s psychoactive.”... View Source

The trustee for a unit of failed Swedish battery maker Northvolt AB said there is little basis to hold board directors personally liable, even as supplier claims of about 6.8 billion kronor ($720 million) remain unpaid... View Source

NASA’s 2026 Gateways to Blue Skies competition invites collegiate teams to conceptualize innovative systems and practices that would advance current commercial aircraft maintenance, repair, and operations with the goal to enhance resilience, safety, and efficiency.   The commercial aviation industry is a crucial component of the U.S. economy, employing millions and supporting global commerce and t... View Source

With the US tech industry scrambling to contain the fallout of Donald Trump's latest assault against immigrants, Europe senses blood in the water. Trump blindsided American businesses late last week with a new $100,000-a-year fee on all H-1B visas, which are used to bring tens of thousands of skilled workers to the country's tech sector. Giants like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft spent the weekend... View Source

Oracle Corp. is seeking to borrow $15 billion from the US investment-grade bond market on Wednesday, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Logitech has launched the Signature Slim Solar+ K980, a new solar-powered keyboard that you don't need to put under the sun whenever it runs low on battery. The company says it can use "light from any light source to stay charged and ready to use" and that you can use it in complete darkness for up to four months once it's fully charged. As long as the light source reaches 200... View Source

Up to 98 percent of the energy of an earthquake goes into flash heating rocks, not shaking the ground, new research shows. The finding could help yield better earthquake forecasts... View Source

NOAA's GOES-19 satellite may have captured the first natural solar eclipse from space, with the moon's odd path explained by a spacecraft maneuver... View Source

Users who dismiss the ads are taken to Pocket Casts’ subscription page. Pocket Casts is being flogged for showing advertisements to legacy users who were promised an ad-free experience. The first reports started to appear in early September in the Pocket Casts support forum and subreddit. The issue is a bug, according to Matt Mullenweg, the CEO of Pocket Casts’ parent company Automattic, and... View Source

Bets that the Federal Reserve will continue cutting interest rates have fueled a rally in one of the riskiest corners of the technology sector, raising concerns about a potential painful reversal in the stocks... View Source

NASA's IMAP mission and two other spacecraft launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket early Wednesday morning (Sept. 24) to study space weather and its effects on Earth... View Source

X alternative Bluesky seems to be having one of those days. I first noticed that my "Following" feed - which is supposed to load posts chronologically - wasn't showing any posts more recent than two hours ago. I follow 728 accounts right now, some of which are extremely online, so I knew something must be up. When I tried to share one of my own articles from this morning, it appeared to post succe... View Source

The UK’s National Crime Agency has arrested a man during its investigation into a cyberattack that disrupted check-ins and delayed flights at several major European airports over the weekend... View Source

Mary Roach unpacks the millennia-long effort to replace failing body parts—and the reasons that modern medicine still struggles to match the original designs... View Source

The team's design uses fission reactions involving uranium to heat propellant... View Source

Germany is seeking to attract skilled Indian workers, its envoy said, as US President Donald Trump’s H-1B visa crackdown rattles India’s software industry and raises tensions with Washington... View Source

Wireless charging has become one of the easiest ways to keep your gadgets powered without dealing with tangled cables or a worn-out charging port. Whether you’re topping up your phone, earbuds or smartwatch, a good wireless charger saves you the hassle of plugging in and can even deliver faster charging speeds with the right standard.The best options in 2025 go beyond simple pads. You’ll find 3-in... View Source

Google is continuing to slowly tease its rumored plans to bring Android to PCs, merging it with ChromeOS, and now Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon is getting in on the action. He says he’s seen a version of the software, and that he “can’t wait to have one.” Amon was speaking on stage with Google’s head of platforms and devices, Rick Osterloh, during the opening keynote for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit... View Source

Spotify just announced integration with popular DJ software platforms like rekordbox, Serato and djay. This will make it much easier to build out sets from playlists and to do cool stuff like blend tracks. The company says that users "will be able to access their entire library and playlists directly within desktop DJ software," with just one caveat. This is only for Premium subscribers... View Source

Spotify x Algoriddim, is back. After pulling support for third-party DJ apps, Spotify Premium subscribers can once again log in and start streaming their playlists and queueing up requests directly from the Mac and Windows versions of Algoriddim’s popular djay software. Right now Spotify integration is only available on the djay desktop apps. Neither company has commented on the possibility of the... View Source

Climate change, pollution, and fishing are pushing oceans closer to their limits at an unprecedented rate. The pressure of that human impact is expected to double by 2050, according to a new study... View Source

Samsung subsidiary Harman has completed its acquisition of Sound United, Masimo’s former audio business, adding a sizable expansion to Samsung’s audio brand portfolio. The $350 million deal was first announced in May, and brings Bowers & Wilkins, Denon, Marantz, Definitive Technology, Polk Audio, HEOS, Classé, and Boston Acoustics under the same roof as JBL, Harman Kardon, and other audio bran... View Source

Australian phone company Optus said last week’s network outage left some 480 customers unable to reach emergency services, as the Singapore Telecommunications Ltd.-owned business started an independent review into the fatal failure... View Source

Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd. is integrating Nvidia Corp.’s suite of artificial intelligence development tools for so-called physical AI into its cloud software platform... View Source

Mech-Mind Robotics Technologies is planning an initial public offering in Hong Kong to raise about $200 million, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

If vacuuming is your least favorite chore, employing a robot vacuum can save you time and stress while also making sure your home stays clean. While once most robo-vacs landed on the higher end of the price spectrum, that’s not the case anymore. Sure, you could pick up a $1,000 cleaning behemoth with mopping features, but it would be incorrect to assume that you need to spend that much money to ge... View Source

The solar cell does not light up, contrary to Logitech’s marketing images for the K980. | Image: Logitech Logitech left solar-powered keyboards in the dark for over a decade, but it’s launching a new one today. Just like the K760 before it, its new $99.99 Signature Slim Solar Plus K980 can only be powered with light. There’s no USB port or swappable batteries. Instead, it features a cell that can... View Source

Mercedes-Benz Group AG is replacing its chief technology officer Markus Schäfer as the German luxury-car maker prepares for additional cost cuts... View Source

Jimmy Kimmel made a triumphant return to television (in most, but not all, cities) on Tuesday night, devoting his monologue to his short but shocking removal from the air. The comedian tackled the uproar head-on, directly naming Brendan Carr, the Federal Communications Commission Chair who had instigated Kimmel's censorship. In a later segment, he took aim at Carr in a sketch where Robert De Niro... View Source

China’s market watchdog is initiating a series of moves to tamp down runaway competition in the meal delivery arena, spurring a rally in shares of sector leaders Meituan and JD.com Inc... View Source

By understanding warning signs and talking to your child, parents can help reduce the risk of teen suicide... View Source

Growing desertification is putting traditional livelihoods at risk in western Africa and encouraging the search for rare stonesBy night, Lamine Hanoun works as a hospital guard in Bir Moghrein, near Mauritania’s border with Morocco-occupied Western Sahara. By day, he twiddles his phone, checking TikTok and Facebook, which he uses to sell meteorites to the rest of the world.In this former French co... View Source

Google is announcing several updates to Google Play in an attempt to shift the app store from "a place to download apps" to "an experience." Many of the changes are powered by AI, and most seem like a preemptive attempt to keep the Play Store attractive for users now that it seems increasingly possible Google will be forced to open up Android to third-party app stores. The most... View Source

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. will raise its spending on AI development as it looks to build a complete AI ecosystem that rivals American competitors... View Source

Along with its new 360 Pro 2 Max camera, GoPro has introduced the Lit Hero — a new compact action cam that looks like its entry-level Hero with a built-in LED light. That, along with improved image quality and a price that falls between the Hero and high-end Hero 13 models, could make it a popular option for creators and vloggers. The GoPro Lit has a similar form factor to the Hero but differs in... View Source

The iPhone 17 Pro in Cosmic Orange. Apple’s new, anodized aluminum iPhone 17 Pro phones have drawn attention for reportedly being easy to scratch around the camera “plateau,” and iFixit has investigated the issue in microscopic detail in its teardown video for the phones. Here are some pictures showing just what those scratches look like under a digital microscope: iFixit talked to David Niebuhr,... View Source

Kojima Productions, the studio helmed by auteur and famed cardboard box enthusiast Hideo Kojima, has finally given us our first glimpse of gameplay for the horror game OD. Developed in collaboration with Get Out and Us director Jordan Peele, OD is being billed as a totally unique experience that Kojima expects to divide players. It’s also going to leverage Microsoft’s cloud gaming tech in way... View Source

The Tokyo Game Show is taking place this week and Sony is getting in on the action with a PlayStation State of Play. The stream will start at 5PM ET on Wednesday, September 24 and run for over 35 minutes. You can watch it on YouTube (also with English subtitles or in Japanese) and Twitch. The stream will be available right here for your convenience, because we're nice like that.  There w... View Source

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We did not mock up these images; they’re part of the DHS video. | Images: DHS / Pokemon Yesterday afternoon, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) posted a piece of disgusting propaganda that glorifies the concept of a militarized police state forcefully entering people’s homes and businesses and leading them away in handcuffs and zip ties — all set to the classic Pokémon theme song and usi... View Source

Meta put the smartglasses industry on alert when it announced the Meta Ray-Ban Displays last week. And while those might feature one of the most advanced optical engines on a device its size, after testing out one of its competitors — the Rokid Glasses — I'm convinced there's still plenty of room for competition. At $549, the Rokid Glasses are more affordable than the Meta Ray-Ban Displa... View Source

NASA’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket is getting ready to send four astronauts from Earth on a journey around the Moon in 2026. Engineers have upgraded the agency’s Moon SLS rocket inside and out after the Artemis 1 launch. SLS flew a good first mission on the Artemis I test flight. NASA commits ... Read more... View Source

California Attorney General Rob Bonta said he was “encouraged” by a recent talk with OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman and actions the company has taken in the wake of a lawsuit alleging ChatGPT guided a teenager to suicide... View Source

Apple is expanding its Tap to Pay on iPhone feature for merchants to five more countries in Europe. Businesses in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Monaco and Norway will now be able to accept in-person contactless payments on their iPhones. The functionality is limited to specific third-party iOS apps that vary by nation. For example, British fintech company SumUp will now support Tap to Pay on iPhone... View Source