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The Secret Service says it thwarted a telecommunications cyber-op in New York City. On Tuesday, the agency announced that it seized a network of SIM servers. It was capable of jamming cell towers, conducting DDoS attacks and enabling encrypted communications. The discovery came ahead of world leaders gathering for the UN General Assembly this week. The network, reportedly discovered in August, was... View Source

Google has announced it will reverse a major content moderation decision: YouTube will offer channels that were banned for spreading covid and election misinformation in 2020 a pathway back onto the platform. In a letter sent to the House Judiciary Committee, Alphabet's lawyers claimed that the Biden administration had previously "pressed the Company" to remove user-generated Covid-19 content that... View Source

US President Donald Trump’s plan to slap a $100,000 fee on H-1B visas is just one more reason to look for outperformance from India’s domestically exposed stocks, which are less vulnerable to the America First agenda... View Source

Apple has delayed the release of its new series The Savant just three days before it was supposed to premiere on September 26, Deadline reports. The series follows an investigator, played by Jessica Chastain, who infiltrates a domestic extremist group in the US. Apple hasn't provided a new release date for the show. "After careful consideration, we have made the decision to postpone The... View Source

Google is launching a new AI concepting tool that lets you create moodboards to explore design ideas. The Mixboard Google Labs experiment gives users an open canvas to create projects from pre-populated board templates or text prompts using Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash model. The experimental tool is available through public beta in the US. The format is visually similar to platforms like FigJam or A... View Source

Three years after OpenAI and Nvidia Corp. helped kick off the global artificial intelligence frenzy, the two firms are joining forces to pave the way for a more costly phase of development with a deal that’s quickly revived fears of an AI bubble... View Source

Google's AI Mode is continuing its rapid global growth. Today, the company announced that this addition to Google Search is rolling out in Spanish. The new option is available in all countries that support AI Mode. The move will allow Spanish speakers around the world to engage with this AI chatbot in their language of choice when asking more complicated questions than a search engine can typ... View Source

Gearbox Software is delaying the Nintendo Switch 2 version of Borderlands 4, which had been set to release on October 3rd, to give the game “additional development and polish time.” The studio will provide new release timing “once we’ve fully adjusted our plans” and all digital preorders will be cancelled. “We do not take this decision lightly, but are committed to ensuring we deliver the best pos... View Source

ATRenew Inc., a Chinese platform for second-hand electronics recycling and trading, expects a sharp rise in consumer trade-ins following Apple Inc.’s iPhone 17 launch... View Source

The inevitable has happened and Disney+ has once again announced that prices will be going up for its streaming service. Whether it's because of the ever-increasing costs or because of the company's recent teetering toward censorship or because you simply aren't using it, you may decide it's time to take a break. Here's everything you need to know about canceling your Disn... View Source

A Russian biological research satellite toting more than 30 experiments landed on Sept. 19 in the steppes of the Orenburg region after spending 30 days in Earth orbit... View Source

This year’s magic trade-in number is 13. You'll never believe this, but TikTok has gotten ahold of an idea that's not quite right and taken off running with it. I know. I was shocked too. But the TikTok algorithm giveth, and over the past week it hath given us a whole bunch of videos promoting the idea that Apple is offering screaming trade-in offers for the iPhone 13 Pro Max - that model specific... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde unpacks Nvidia's $100 billion investment in OpenAI for data centers, while a report from Bain raises concerns on the future of the AI industry. Plus Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy discusses the company’s new initiative for a unified data standard. And the prospect of a TikTok deal lingers as US President Trump chastises China’s Russia relationship during his address to t... View Source

AI is an enormous energy drain, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions at a time when the planet desperately needs progress in the opposite direction. Although most of that comes from running GPUs, cooling them is another significant overhead. So, it's worth noting when a company of Microsoft's stature claims to have achieved a breakthrough in chip cooling. Microsoft's new system... View Source

Lockheed Martin’s newly unveiled Vectis drone will be a groundbreaking advancement in unmanned aerial systems. Lockheed Martin has introduced Vectis and describes it as the most advanced fighter drone ever built. It has not been built yet. It is in simulation and design. It is classified as a Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) by the U.S. ... Read more... View Source

An image of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk is projected on a screen ahead of his public memorial service at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on September 21, 2025. AFP via Getty Images. Hello and welcome to Regulator. According to a rough transcript of Charlie Kirk's memorial service, the word "martyr" was uttered less than 10 times. But to the 90,000-plus people watching live in Glendal... View Source

OpenAI plans to invest roughly $400 billion to develop five new US data center sites in partnership with Oracle Corp. and SoftBank Group Corp., marking the biggest push yet to fulfill an earlier pledge to spend a half-trillion dollars on artificial intelligence infrastructure in the country.The new locations, spread across Texas, New Mexico and Ohio, will eventually have a capacity of 7 gigawatts... View Source

Curious to see if those Forza Horizon 6 rumors are true? You may not have long to wait. Xbox's presentation at the Tokyo Game Show 2025 is fast approaching. You can watch the event live right here on September 25 at 6AM ET. Forza Horizon 6 is rumored to have a Japan setting, making this week's event a logical venue for its announcement. That's not the only thing to go on. Windows Ce... View Source

A new order for a GE Vernova 7HA gas turbine placed today would likely see delivery in late 2028 at the earliest, with potential delays extending to 2029–2030 depending on production ramp-up and order prioritization. This equates to a lead time of approximately 3–4 years from order date, though some reports indicate quotes up to ... Read more... View Source

Scientists didn't expect to find the remnants of an icy world around this extremely dense white dwarf star... View Source

The Savant, the upcoming Apple TV Plus show about law enforcement working to prevent domestic terrorism, was slated to premiere this Friday. But the streamer has quietly pulled the series from its release slate and it's not clear if or when it will now debut. Based on Andrea Stanley's 2019 Cosmopolitan article "Is It Possible to Stop a Mass Shooting Before It Happens?", The Savant follows as inves... View Source

On today’s Big Take Asia podcast, we break down what the TikTok deal means for US-China relations and who gained the upper hand at the negotiating table... View Source

Next year, baseball reasons will have one less reason to rage at the umpire. Major League Baseball announced today that it will introduce the Automated Ball Strike challenge system in the 2026 season for all spring training, championship season and postseason games. In other words, next year there will be a way for the players to attempt to overturn an umpire's call about whether a pitch coun... View Source

China and the USA are racing to develop unmanned wingman drone fighter jets. Those will form mixed manned and unmanned fighter jets with fighter superdrones. China’s new Fujian aircraft carrier with magnetic launcher like carrier-scale drone operations. As of September 23, 2025, the U.S. Navy has two aircraft carriers equipped with the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch ... Read more... View Source

Major League Baseball will use so-called robot umpires at home plate beginning in 2026, the league announced today. The system has been tested in minor league games (as explained in this video, included below), spring training, and events like the 2025 All-Star Game. The Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) is seen as a fairer, more accurate way to call when a pitch is a ball or a strike, which curr... View Source

Experts fear that Donald Trump’s anti-painkiller tirade could lead to an increase in risk factors for autism, and don’t trust the administration to assess data as it continues to search for a cause... View Source

Micron Technology Inc., the largest US maker of computer memory chips, gave an upbeat forecast for the current quarter, helped by demand for artificial intelligence equipment... View Source

With the launch of the ROG Xbox Ally only a few weeks away on October 16, the fantasy of a portable Xbox is about to be a lot more real. As a recent video from YouTuber James Channel shows, though, with a first-generation Xbox and the right components, you can make your own version of an Xbox handheld right now. Just don't expect it to be pretty. James' "portable monstrosity" s... View Source

Xinhua News Agency reports that the Chinese navy has had take off arrested landing tests of the J-15T, J-35 fighter jets and the KJ-600 early warning and command aircraft with a electromagnetic catapult on the new Fujian aircraft carrier. The CNS Fujian is a Type 003 and is the China’s most advanced aircraft carrier. Video ... Read more... View Source

SpaceX performed a full-duration static fire test with its latest Starship spacecraft recently to help gear up for the 11th test flight of the massive rocket... View Source

President Donald Trump was the final speaker at Charlie Kirk's memorial service, capping off six hours of an intensely evangelical, borderline nationalist Christian revival. He entered with the biggest pyrotechnics of the day while Lee Greenwood himself serenaded him live with "God Bless the USA." And the moment he began to speak, I noticed something odd: people were already streaming toward the e... View Source

Boeing Co. will partner with Palantir Technologies Inc. to integrate artificial intelligence on current and future defense programs and in its factories... View Source

Amazon is pivoting its grocery operations in the UK, announcing that it will close 14 of its Amazon Fresh stores in the country. The remaining five Amazon Fresh locations in the UK will be converted to the Whole Foods Market brand. Rather than the brick and mortar shops, Amazon said it will focus on online grocery deliveries within the region. In 2026, the company said it expects to add perishable... View Source

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman. | Image: Bloomberg via Getty Images The AI browser wars are heating up. Google has Gemini in Chrome, Perplexity is building its Comet AI browser, and The Browser Company just got acquired by Atlassian for $610 million. Now, Microsoft wants to be part of the AI browser conversation. I sat down with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman today to talk about the future o... View Source

Channels once banned by YouTube for spreading false information regarding the COVID-19 pandemic or the 2020 election may soon have the opportunity to get their channels back, in a decision transparently courting "conservative voices." Alphabet, the parent company of Google and YouTube, has sent a letter via counsel to the House Judiciary Committee in which it alleges the company was pres... View Source

Google’s Pixel Buds Pro 2 are currently $50 off. Amazon recently announced that its fall Prime Day sale — once again dubbed Prime Big Deal Days — will kick off on Tuesday, October 7th, and run through October 8th. While you have a few weeks to get your wishlist in order, the retailer isn’t waiting for the main event to roll out the savings. Amazon has already started dropping early deals and disco... View Source

Costco has reportedly stopped selling Xbox consoles online throughout the US and UK, according to reports by The Gamer and others. The wholesaler has removed any mention of the console and related accessories and games from its website. I checked this myself and, sure enough, the search yielded no results. The site still has dedicated sections for both Sony and Nintendo and is selling the PS5 and... View Source

NASA/James Blair NASA’s 2025 astronaut candidate class greets the crowd in this Sept. 22, 2025, image. The group was introduced Monday following a competitive selection process of more than 8,000 applicants from across the United States. The class now will complete nearly two years of training before becoming eligible for flight assignments supporting future science and exploration missions to low... View Source

NASA's ambitious mission to return astronauts to the moon for the first time this century is on track to launch no later than April 2026, but it just might fly sooner if all goes well... View Source

Though technology has always played an important role in the Alien franchise, FX's Alien: Earth series is the first chapter to really dig into the inner workings of the tech companies responsible for unleashing xenomorphs onto humanity. To corporations like Weyland-Yutani and its competitors, the show's aliens present an opportunity to develop products that could boost their stock valuations to as... View Source

The managing partner and co-founder of Unity Advisory is set to leave the new consultancy business, which launched in June with backing from private equity firm Warburg Pincus... View Source

Sony is introducing a new rewards program for PlayStation owners that lets you purchase exclusive physical merchandise if you've unlocked certain in-game trophies. The company is starting with rewards for two trophies from Sucker Punch's Ghost of Tsushima (rewards for Ghost of Yotei are in the works), and Sony will presumably offer something similar for all of its most popular game franc... View Source

Lunar minerals can rust when bombarded with high-energy oxygen particles, experiments show... View Source

TP-Link’s BE3600 Wi-Fi 7 Travel Router is $40 off. | Image: The Verge If you’re a frequent traveler with kids, trying to connect everybody’s devices to the hotel or airport Wi-Fi can be stressful. TP-Link’s BE3600 Wi-Fi 7 Travel Router makes the process much easier, and it’s currently on sale for $99.99 ($40 off) at Amazon when you apply the code 20WR36029 at checkout, which marks a new low price... View Source

Walt Disney Co. is hiking the cost of its Disney+ streaming service without advertising by $3 to $19 a month... View Source

You know how annoying it is to click multiple edits on a photo? What's that? It's actually pretty easy to do. Well, Google says otherwise and has a solution for you: conversational editing, a feature that lets you tell Google your requested edits, rather than have to make them yourself.  Google first introduced conversational editing to Pixel 10 phones, but the company is now rollin... View Source

Final tests of NASA's laser beam communication technology offer a promising new way to keep in touch with astronauts and spacecraft venturing into deep space, including future missions to Mars... View Source

For a company that’s staking its future on AI and robotics, Tesla sure is having a tough time explaining its technology to government regulators. The company’s efforts to launch a robotaxi service in San Francisco, which isn’t actually a robotaxi since it features safety drivers in the front seat, is alarming state officials in charge of overseeing autonomous vehicle testing, according to a new re... View Source

Apple Intelligence takes a backseat to fresh designs, a very thin phone and upgraded cameras... View Source

Disney might be trying to put the Jimmy Kimmel Live fiasco to bed by bringing the show back on Tuesday night (good luck with that). But the company isn't exactly putting itself back in customers’ good graces. Once again, it’s hiking the prices of Disney+ subscriptions in the US. Several standalone plans and bundles are getting price increases. The changes come into effect on October 21. After... View Source

BackgroundThe NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) has reviewed flight, ground test, and published data on ultraviolet-induced degradation of silicone based thermal control coatings. Analysis has shown, for at least one silicone coating, that bake-out plays an important role in ultraviolet (UV) degradation, indicating that UV interaction with paint volatiles, and not the structural material,... View Source

American Indian and Alaska Native infants experience the highest rates of RSV-related hospitalization in the U.S., but a breakthrough immunization is helping to close the gap... View Source

See the crescent moon shine with Mars at sunset on Sept. 24... View Source

Disney is raising the price of Disney Plus subscriptions again as part of its mission to squeeze profits from its streaming service. The new prices will go into effect on October 21st. The standalone plan with ads will increase by $2 to $11.99 per month, while the no-ads Disney Plus Premium plan will increase by $3 to $18.99 per month (with the annual subscription going up by $30 to $189.99 per ye... View Source

Transcom Holding AB’s bondholders are in talks with the Swedish outsourcing business’ sponsor Altor over the firm’s ability to repay a bond maturing next year, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Riot's long-awaited fighting game 2XKO, previously called Project L, will be released for PC as an early access title on October 7. That's just two weeks away. The company dropped a development update video that's filled with nods to the source material. 2XKO is set in the League of Legends universe and features many characters from across the franchise. Players can fight as icons l... View Source

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Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) continues to affect infants and older and immunocompromised people around the world. These graphics reveal where the burden lies and what the effects of immunizations are... View Source

SpaceX isn't just a private company – it's becoming an astronaut proving ground... View Source

The last year has brought some of the biggest changes to Google's search results pages that I have ever seen in my near-decade of experience working in digital media. And not all of those changes are welcome. Thankfully, there's now a way to customize what you see in search - and to prioritize seeing The Verge. You can do this by selecting The Verge as a preferred source in Google. This tells Goog... View Source

NASA is pressing ahead with preparations for the first launch of humans beyond low-Earth orbit in more than five decades, and officials said Tuesday that the Artemis II mission could take flight early next year. Although work remains to be done, the space agency is now pushing toward a launch window that opens on February 5, 2026, officials said during a news conference on Tuesday at Johnson Space... View Source

Small amounts of fluid passed through channels etched on chips can save energy and boost AI systems... View Source

Meta is launching a national super political action committee (PAC), according to a report by Axios. This super PAC will be committed to fighting "onerous" AI regulation across the country. It's called the American Technology Excellence Project and Meta spokesperson Rachel Holland said the company is investing "tens of millions" into the effort. The goal of the PAC is to e... View Source

The year 2023 marked the debut of groundbreaking innovations to prevent severe RSV infections in infants. Now protected babies are way less likely to develop severe infections or to end up in the ICU... View Source

Here's a peek at the Silver Surfer's CGI creation for the digital and home video release of "The Fantastic Four: First Steps."... View Source

There are only two things that Nate really wants to do: use the toilet (one that, he emphasizes, comes with three walls and a door) and go home. He also walks with a strange gait, with one tiny foot raised awkwardly in front of the other, before landing with a gentle plop. At times, he teeters to one side, nearly off balance, as he strives to hike up a very tall, steep, and seemingly belligerent m... View Source

Members of New York City’s business community are forming an advisory group in an effort to guide mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani if he wins the election in November... View Source

The long-running joke about Hideo Kojima is that he’d secretly rather be making movies than video games. Kojima somehow nearly got into double figures on Metal Gear games without any of them receiving the adaptation treatment (though not for the lack of trying on his part), but it’s looking like a very different story for the Death Stranding series on which he’s been working since departing Konami... View Source

Abigail Echo-Hawk, a preeminent Native American public health expert, discusses RSV, “data genocide” and positive change driven by Indigenous storytelling... View Source

The US Secret Service says it has disrupted a network of devices used to carry out assassination threats against US officials and for anonymous communications between threat actors, according to a report from NBC News. In the Tuesday announcement, the agency revealed that it uncovered the network within a 35-mile radius of the United Nations General Assembly, which started this week. In addition t... View Source

Nexstar Media Group Inc. said it would join Sinclair Inc., another large owner of ABC affiliates, in preempting Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday night... View Source

WhatsApp is now rolling out message translations on its iOS and Android apps. Starting today, Android users will be able to translate messages between six languages: English, Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian and Arabic. On iPhone, there's support for translation between the following languages (i.e. all of the ones supported by Apple's Translate app): Arabic Dutch English French Germa... View Source

RSV is the leading cause of infant hospitalizations in the U.S. But that could soon change as research advances lead to new preventative drugs for everyone... View Source

Purdue University, known as the "cradle of astronauts," will send a six-person crew to suborbital space with Virgin Galactic in 2027... View Source

The creators of Oboe know what everyone's thinking about AI. "Is AI going to make us all stupid?" the company asks in a recent ad. "Are we going to forget how to think for ourselves?" Oboe's founders think the answer to both of those questions is no, and their startup is meant to prove it. The AI education platform, which launched this month, uses AI to craft "courses" about any topic that strikes... View Source

Private jets, box seats and big checks. Investors are doing whatever it takes to get into top AI deals... View Source

The European Union has asked Apple, Google and Microsoft to explain how they police online financial scams, stepping up enforcement of the Digital Services Act (DSA), as first reported by the Financial Times. Formal information requests were also sent to Booking Holdings, the owner of Booking.com, regarding how the company handles fake accommodation listings. Likewise, regulators will be probing f... View Source

The journey toward an RSV vaccine for children has been wrought with tragedy and setbacks. But six decades after scientists embarked on that path, they are nearing the finish line... View Source

A new sidebar will include a dedicated Gemini Live button. | Image: Google Google will soon let you ask its Gemini AI assistant for help progressing in mobile games. On Tuesday, Google announced that a Gemini Live integration will appear within a new overlay on games downloaded from the Play Store, allowing you to ask for some hints without opening a new window. The feature will roll out in select... View Source

The Trump administration is proposing a major overhaul of the selection process for H-1B visas heavily used by the tech industry, basing allocation on skill-level required and wages offered for a position instead of the current randomized lottery... View Source

Google might have found a way Gemini could be useful while you're playing games on your phone. The company is introducing a new software overlay today it calls the Play Games Sidekick that gives you access to Gemini Live while you play, alongside a host of other gaming-focused updates to Google Play that could make the app platform a better home for gamers. Sidekick exists as a small, moveabl... View Source

A tragic RSV vaccine trial in the 1960s set the field back for decades. Here’s how scientists finally made breakthroughs in RSV immunization... View Source

In this quiz, you'll match iconic extraterrestrial characters to the TV shows and films that made them famous... View Source

YouTube is the most powerful platform in entertainment, and as such it has outsize influence on what kind of entertainment people make and watch. When YouTube adds a mid-video ad break, videos get longer to accommodate it. When YouTube tells podcasters to make video, podcasters make video. And for its next act, it appears the company is prepared to turn all its creators into livestreamers. On this... View Source

Google is introducing an artificial intelligence assistant that can offer live coaching to mobile gamers, part of a larger effort to boost engagement on its Android platform... View Source

Meta is allowing more governments to access its suite of Llama AI models. The group includes France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and South Korea and organizations associated with the European Union and NATO, the company said in an update. The move comes after the company took similar steps last year to bring Llama to the US government and its contractors. Meta has also made its AI models available to t... View Source

Bang & Olufsen’s latest Beo Grace earbuds offer a flashy aluminum design and the brand’s “most advanced” active noise cancellation for a staggering $1,500. These pricey new buds pump sound through 12mm titanium drivers, featuring ANC powered by six microphones that adjust audio based on ambient noise and the shape of your ear. The Beo Grace earbuds support Dolby Atmos spatial audio and the tra... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. and three executives are facing a federal regulator’s allegations in a Seattle court that they duped customers into signing up for the company’s Prime subscription service and then made it too hard to cancel... View Source

In a break from tradition, GoPro hasn’t announced a new Hero Black camera this fall. Instead, this year’s flagship is the much-rumored Max 2 360 camera ($500). The Max 2 lands at a time when spherical video is having a mini renaissance, taking on Insta360’s X5 ($550) and DJI’s Osmo 360 ($550). Perhaps surprisingly, GoPro’s Max 2 is the most affordable of the three, suggesting that the company migh... View Source

As the name suggests, particle accelerators involve accelerating subatomic particles to incredibly high speeds and smashing them into tiny targets... View Source

The new Google Play You tab wants to expand your content horizons. Google Play is adding a new centralized user hub that makes it easier to find player account information and personalized content recommendations. In its blog announcement, Google describes the You tab as a “home base” that houses Google Play stats, rewards, subscriptions, and updates, alongside recommendations for “relevant conten... View Source

Kendall Square, a major biopharmaceutical hub that borders the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s campus, bills itself as the most innovative square mile on the planet. These days, there’s plenty of room for innovation in the Cambridge, Massachusetts neighborhood... View Source

Palworld is getting as spinoff that looks both cozy and terrifying — oh, and filled with characters that look exactly like Pokémon. In Palworld: Palfarm, you move to the Palpagos Islands and create a farm alongside Pals. These creatures help with farm work, cook and can even become friends.  According to an announcement on Steam, "Through daily conversations, working together, or giving... View Source

September's partial solar eclipse was not just caught by eager skywatchers on Earth but also by satellites orbiting high above... View Source

Google has spent a decade sharpening its "weapons" in an industry that helps sustain large swaths of the open internet, the Justice Department argued before a federal judge Monday. After years of operating an illegal monopoly in two ad tech markets and unlawfully tying its products together, nothing short of a break up will suffice to overcome Google's "massive head start" over rivals, it claims... View Source

“Sometimes the bull case is the lack of a credible bear case, that’s where we are at this very minute,” says Lisa Shalett, CIO at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, as she sees the Mag 7 stocks as “probably over-owned and a little sizzly.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

DJI might be an innovative company, but it has been playing catch-up to rival Insta360 in the action cam world. A perfect example of that is its latest product, the Osmo Nano ($299). It follows a path Insta360 paved with its tiny Go Ultra and Go 3S, which let you separate the cam from the display to shoot with the least weight possible. Like those, the Nano’s tiny camera can be detached from the s... View Source

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Hot, small and old—exoplanet TOI-561 b is just about the worst place to look for alien air. Scientists using JWST found it there anyway... View Source

The next annular solar eclipse will occur on Feb. 17, 2026... View Source

The European Union wants to assess if Apple, Google, and Microsoft are doing enough to prevent the proliferation of online scams on their platforms. The Financial Times reports that EU regulators are formally requesting information from the three US tech companies under the Digital Services Act regarding their efforts to tackle financial fraud, alongside Booking Holdings, the global accommodation... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Takashi Mochizuki reports on the sluggish sales for independent game makers despite consumer enthusiasm for Nintendo’s Switch 2 console... View Source

Uber is still trying to chip away at the perception that its ridehailing service is too expensive by launching a new feature aimed at helping customers save money on frequently traveled routes. Today, the company is launching prepaid passes, in which customers can pay a discounted price in advance on frequently taken trips. Passes will be offered in bundles of 5, 10, 15, or 20 rides, with the bigg... View Source

Micron Technology Inc.’s earnings after the bell Tuesday will shed light on whether the chipmaker’s high-flying stock has gotten ahead of itself after a nearly 40% gain in September... View Source

After the proclamation of a TikTok ban, which fizzled out, during President Trump’s first term, the idea of a TikTok lockout across the US was back on the table when he returned for a second presidency. Now, after too much will-they-won’t-they, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said a TikTok deal is expected to be signed “in the coming days.” This follows President Donald Trump posting... View Source

Volvo’s EX90 SUV was supposed to usher in a new era of electrified dominance for the Chinese-owned, Swedish designed automaker. Instead, the three-row SUV has been plagued by problems from the very start, including blank infotainment screens, faulty climate controls, driver assist failures, and the noticeable lack of a working lidar sensors. Now, the EX90 is getting a fresh coat of paint, and the... View Source

Bang & Olufsen has launched a new pair of earbuds that could cost more than your phone or your laptop. The Beo Grace, as the model is called, will set you back $1,500, £1000 or €1200, depending on where you are. It has a silver aluminum casing with a pearl finish, which you can protect with a bespoke leather pouch, though the accessory will cost you an additional $400. The company says Beo Gra... View Source

Kenya’s government is yet to engage the board of Safaricom Plc about a potential plan to split its biggest company into three separate firms, according to Chief Executive Officer Peter Ndegwa... View Source

Anna Menon, one of NASA's 10 new astronaut candidates, already has a spaceflight under her belt — SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission to Earth orbit in September 2024... View Source

Auterion, a startup that provides software to military drones, has raised $130 million to expand its operations abroad, including in geopolitical hotspots Ukraine and Taiwan, a further sign that private investors are pouring money into defense... View Source

Taiwan is requiring pre-approval for chips going to South Africa, citing national security concerns... View Source

Microsoft is starting to test experimental AI-powered features through a new Windows AI Labs program. Some Windows testers spotted references to the Windows AI Labs program in pre-release updates to Microsoft Paint last week, and Microsoft has now confirmed to The Verge that the program is designed to provide early access to new AI features across Windows. “The Windows AI Lab is a pilot accelerati... View Source

Tado’s Auto Assist gets an AI update. Smart thermostat company Tado is launching new AI-powered features that aim to help users heat their homes more efficiently. Tado says the AI Assist update builds on the company’s existing Auto Assist options by introducing “advanced machine-learning” that “learns, predicts, and optimizes” heating in real time. AI Assist is available in Europe and the UK today... View Source

Jumia Technologies AG’s Chief Executive Officer Francis Dufay said the global trade war is benefiting Africa’s biggest e-commerce company by increasing its access to Chinese goods... View Source

A Nigerian fintech firm is partnering with a US bank to enable customers to link their bank accounts in both countries via a single digital wallet... View Source

ASM International NV cut its outlook for second-half revenue, citing lower-than-anticipated demand from some of the semiconductor equipment maker’s clients... View Source

Huawei Technologies Co. openly admits its silicon can’t match Nvidia Corp.’s in raw power and speed. So to pack the same punch, China’s national champion is counting on its traditional strengths: brute force, networking, and policy support... View Source

Hideo Kojima first announced he was teaming up with Xbox for a new game in 2022, before a teaser revealed the OD name and some cast last year. We’re now getting a better look at exactly what OD is, in a new three-minute teaser trailer that holds true to Kojima’s promise that the game will be unique and immersive. The trailer opens with Sophia Lillis’ character opening a red door, and then lighting... View Source

Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul’s new government will unveil plans for short-term economic stimulus to boost consumption and help those struggling with heavy debt, racing to broaden support in its next four months in power... View Source

Flipkart India Pvt., backed by Walmart Inc., is investing $30 million in its fintech unit Supermoney as the e-commerce giant accelerates its push into lending and stock broking, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Artificial intelligence companies like OpenAI have been quick to unveil plans for spending hundreds of billions of dollars on data centers, but they have been slower to show how they will pull in revenue to cover all those expenses. Now, the consulting firm Bain & Co. is estimating the shortfall could be far larger than previously understood... View Source

A screenshot of Palworld: Palfarm. Palworld won’t hit 1.0 until next year, but developer Pocketpair is already announcing a farming spinoff: Palworld: Palfarm. Basically, it sounds like the Palworld version of farming simulator games like Stardew Valley. “Each Pal will lend a hand in farm work by making use of their unique abilities,” Pocketpair says in a press release. “From sowing seeds and wate... View Source

Jurors will be allowed to hear expert testimony about the impact of social media on young users during coming trials against tech companies over alleged harm caused by their platforms, a Los Angeles judge ruled... View Source

Nvidia Corp. assured customers that its landmark deal with OpenAI to invest $100 billion and expand AI infrastructure together won’t affect the chipmaker’s relationship with other clients... View Source

The common pain reliever is safe when used as directed, research shows. But scientists remain puzzled by one aspect: how it reduces pain and fever... View Source

Oracle Corp. would provide security and help oversee the re-creation of a new US version of TikTok’s algorithm under a deal taking shape to sell the popular Chinese-owned app to a consortium of American investors, a White House official said, addressing a key concern raised by lawmakers in Washington... View Source

People walk through the hallways at an Equinix data center in Ashburn, Virginia, on May 9, 2024. | Photo: Getty Images Even if AI turns out not to be as much of an energy hog as people are making it out to be, it could still spell out trouble for power grids across the US. Tech companies are already burning through increasing amounts of electricity to train and run new AI models. And they're askin... View Source

T-Mobile US Inc. is promoting Chief Operating Officer Srini Gopalan, to the top job, teeing up a new era for the US’s second-largest wireless carrier as it competes for customers in a market that now also spans home internet and satellite service... View Source

Facebook Dating has added two new AI tools, because clearly a large language model is what the search for love and companionship has been missing all this time. The social media platform introduced a chatbot called dating assistant that can help find prospective dates based on a user's interests. In the blog post announcing the features, the example Meta provided was "Find me a Brooklyn... View Source

The Trump Administration’s crackdown on perceived left-wing threats following the death of Charlie Kirk continued on Monday evening, with Trump announcing an executive order titled “Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization.” The order directs federal departments and agencies to “investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations — especially those involving terrorist... View Source

A cryptocurrency with ties to Binance Holdings Ltd. struck an all-time high as speculation builds that the digital-asset exchange’s co-founder Changpeng Zhao will be granted a US presidential pardon... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Ian King analyzes last week’s announcement that Nvidia would invest in rival chipmaker Intel and the companies would combine on some products... View Source

EventVPN, a new freemium VPN built by the same team and on the same infrastructure as ExpressVPN, launched on September 18 for iOS and macOS. It comes with unlimited free bandwidth, a relative rarity among free VPNs, and carries over ExpressVPN's kill switch and post-quantum WireGuard protocol. Free users get 35 server locations and one device connection, while paid users get 125 locations and eig... View Source

To celebrate Scientific American’s 180th anniversary, we invited readers to place our magazine covers in the wild. See our staff’s favorite submissions... View Source

New simulations suggest sub-Neptune planets may be drier than thought, challenging the "water world" hypothesis and reshaping the search for life beyond Earth... View Source

A Fox Corp. investment in TikTok would give the Murdoch media empire a platform with 170 million US users to promote a broad range of TV programming — from the NFL to The Simpsons  — and a chance to redeem the family’s catastrophic purchase of MySpace 20 years ago... View Source

Steam's seasonal sales are usually the peak moments to add new software to your library, but right now, Valve is offering a notable hardware discount. The Steam Deck starter model is currently on sale for 20 percent off its usual $399 price tag. That means you can snag yourself the gaming handheld with an LCD screen and 256GB of storage for $319. Steam hasn't set an end date for this offer, so it... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss plans for Oracle to recreate and manage a copy of TikTok’s algorithm for US users. Plus, CEO changes abound, with Oracle promoting Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia to co-CEOs, and T-Mobile elevating chief operating officer Srini Gopalan to the top role replacing Mike Sievert. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. exercised “overwhelming control” over subcontracted drivers it claimed weren’t its employees, US labor board attorneys told a judge Monday... View Source

The Supreme Court has voted 6-3 in favor of hearing a lawsuit brought by a former member of the US Federal Trade Commission, CNBC reports. Democrats Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya were fired from their posts as commissioners in the FTC by President Donald Trump in March. As has been the case with several of the Trump administration's actions to remove possible critics from their ro... View Source

Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show is returning on Tuesday after Disney pulled it off the air over comments made about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. In a statement on Monday, Disney said it planned to resume production after having “thoughtful conversations” with Kimmel. “Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation... View Source

Oracle Corp. accelerated its succession plans for top leadership in recent months following a massive acceleration in its cloud business and stock market rally... View Source

Stellantis — the parent of several auto brands including Dodge, Ram and Chrysler — said customers' personal information was included in a data breach. The automaker said in a statement that "contact information" was procured, but not "financial or sensitive personal" data, as that is not stored on the third-party platform that was breached. "We recently detected unaut... View Source

A massive earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula in late July triggered a tsunami that rippled across the Pacific — and NASA’s experimental detection system tracked the event in real time by monitoring the atmosphere above... View Source

Steam has taken down a game containing malware that drained the cryptocurrency wallets belonging to hundreds of players, as reported earlier by Bleeping Computer. The free-to-play 2D platformer, titled BlockBlasters, took more than $150,000 from victims, including $32,000 from a streamer raising funds for their cancer treatment. In a post on X, malware tracker vx-underground revealed that bad acto... View Source

The Justice Department opened its offensive to force a breakup of Alphabet Inc.’s Google Monday in court before the Virginia federal judge who ruled the search giant illegally monopolized advertising technology markets... View Source

Perplexity has introduced a new feature dubbed Email Assistant. With this resource, users can direct an AI chatbot to execute basic email tasks such as scheduling meetings, organizing and prioritizing emails, and drafting replies. At launch, Gmail and Outlook are the only supported email clients. Email assistant is only available to members of the company's pricey Max plan, which costs $... View Source

The Steam Autumn Sale starts next Monday, but Valve dropped an early treat in the form of a rare Steam Deck LCD discount. The 256GB model that normally sells for $399.99 is $319.20 through October 6th at 1PM ET / 10AM PT. I, for one, thank Valve for dropping this deal now instead of when the servers inevitably hiccup at the start of the game sale. For anyone out there deciding between the Steam De... View Source

At a time when stocks are yet again roaring to all-time highs on the back of big tech companies, investors should be “responsibly bullish,” according to Tony Pasquariello, head of hedge fund coverage at Goldman Sachs Group Inc... View Source

Lettuce Find Healthy Space Food! Citizen Scientists Study Space Salads Volunteer members of the OSDR-Analysis Working Groups examined the nutritional quality of crops grown in Low Earth Orbit and the physiological effects of space-induced nutrient deficiencies on astronauts. You can join the team here! Credit: npj Microgravity/Barbero et al., 2025 Missions to the Moon and Mars pose nutritional cha... View Source

Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. plan to tie Tylenol use during pregnancy and folate deficiencies to rising autism rates—but the evidence is thin... View Source

Test your knowledge of the Artemis program—from cutting-edge tech and lunar missions to the astronauts leading the way... View Source

On Monday, more than 200 former heads of state, diplomats, Nobel laureates, AI leaders, scientists, and others all agreed on one thing: There should be an international agreement on “red lines” that AI should never cross — for instance, not allowing AI to impersonate a human being or self-replicate.  They, along with more than 70 organizations that address AI, have all signed the Global... View Source

Oracle Corp. on Monday promoted Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia to become co-chief executive officers, signaling the company’s focus on its rapidly expanding cloud computing business... View Source

TikTok has been tagging videos from war-ravaged Gaza with product recommendations, as reported by The Verge. The publication detailed a scenario in which footage of a Palestinian woman walking amidst rubble presented TikTok shop recommendations that matched what she wore in the video. The algorithm suggested products with names like "Dubai Middle East Turkish Elegant Lace-Up Dress" and... View Source

Facebook Dating is getting new AI features to help users avoid “swipe fatigue,” Meta announced today. The new features include a new “dating assistant” AI chatbot that helps you find potential matches as well as a new “Meet Cute” feature that automatically matches you with someone using a “personalized” algorithm. With the dating assistant, you can type out specific prompts to try and match up wit... View Source

US stocks were on track for another all-time closing high on Monday, rallying from an earlier decline, as traders awaited Federal Reserve speakers and looked ahead to a key inflation measure due at the end of the week... View Source

SpaceX's lunar lander has run into a snag and may not be ready for a mission to the moon that was scheduled for 2027, according to a report by Space News. The company's Starship Human Landing System (HLS) is a variant of the typical Starship spacecraft that has been designed to transport astronauts between lunar orbit and the surface of the moon. “The HLS schedule is significantly challe... View Source

SpaceX launched the latest set of "proliferated architecture" spy satellites for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office today (Sept. 22), sending them up from California's central coast... View Source

It feels like July’s four-day Prime Day just happened, but Amazon’s annual fall sale event is about to make its return. Prime Big Deal Days kicks off on Tuesday, October 7th, at 3AM ET and lasts through October 9th at the same time. For those who haven’t shopped this event in previous years, think of it as a Black Friday / Cyber Monday primer that lets you get the jump on your holiday shopping. Bu... View Source

US tech companies could have a harder time attracting foreign workers after President Donald Trump raised the application fee for H-1B visa's to $100,000. After Trump made the announcement late Friday, some companies had to tell affected employees to return to the US right away and to not travel overseas. Bloomberg's Michael Shepard reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

NVIDIA will invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as the ChatGPT maker sets out to build at least 10 gigawatts of AI data centers using NVIDIA chips and systems. The strategic partnership announced today is gargantuan in scale. The 10-gigawatt buildout will require millions of NVIDIA GPUs to run OpenAI's next-generation models. NVIDIA's investment will be doled out progressively as each gigawatt com... View Source

IC 348 is a star-forming region in our Milky Way galaxy.X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Major Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope combine to reveal an otherworldly view of the star-forming region IC 348. In this image released on July 23, 2025, X-rays from Chandra are red, green, and blue, while infra... View Source

NASA revealed the members of its 2025 astronaut class, the 24th group in the agency's history — some of whom may be among the first people to set foot on Mars... View Source

When Disney-owned ABC put Jimmy Kimmel Live on indefinite suspension, the broadcaster's logic was easy to understand: Kimmel's joke - a riff on the way Donald Trump started talking about construction on the White House's new ballroom after being asked how he felt about Charlie Kirk being shot - was mild. But the bit prompted Trump-appointed Federal Communications Commission chairman Brendan Carr t... View Source

Oura Health Oy, the maker of the popular Oura health and fitness ring, is closing in on a roughly $11 billion valuation after selling about 3 million rings over the past year... View Source

NASA announced its 2025 Astronaut Candidate Class on Sept. 22, 2025. The 10 candidates, pictured here at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston are: U.S. Army CW3 Ben Bailey, U.S. Air Force Maj. Cameron Jones, Katherine Spies, Anna Menon, U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Erin Overcash, U.S. Air Force Maj. Adam Fuhrmann, Dr. Lauren Edgar, Yuri Kubo, Rebecca Lawler, and Dr. Imelda Muller.Credit: NASA Lee este co... View Source

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch NASA's ambitious IMAP mission and two other space weather probes early Tuesday morning (Sept. 23), and you can watch the action live... View Source

Months into an administration that has already suffered several basic security slipups, it's not exactly surprising to see President Donald Trump airing complaints in a public Truth Social post that seemed intended for Pam Bondi's DMs. In the post, Trump directly addresses U.S. Attorney General Bondi, criticizing the lack of legal action against his adversaries. "Pam: I have reviewed over 30 state... View Source

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro said his state would leave America’s biggest power grid if its operator won’t make changes to rein in surging energy bills... View Source

La NASA anunció su promoción de candidatos a astronautas de 2025 el 22 de septiembre de 2025. Los diez candidatos, que aparecen aquí en el Centro Espacial Johnson de la NASA en Houston, son: el suboficial mayor de 3.ª clase del Ejército de los Estados Unidos Ben Bailey, el mayor de la Fuerza Aérea de los Estados Unidos Cameron Jones, Katherine Spies, Anna Menon, la capitana de corbeta de la Marina... View Source

In a video from a Turkish broadcaster, a Palestinian woman walks among the rubble, wailing. "Where are my three daughters, my husband, and my cousin?" She went out to get flour, she says, and came back to find her home collapsed, her family apparently trapped inside. Hit pause on the clip and something strange happens: a prompt reading "Find Similar" pops up. When a viewer clicks the prompt, TikTo... View Source

Nvidia Corp. said it will invest as much as $100 billion in OpenAI to support the building of new data centers and the infrastructure needed to power artificial intelligence workloads... View Source

Gemini is officially available on Google TVs, now that the TCL QM9K series TVs are out in stores. At the moment, they're the only television models that feature Google's AI assistant, but Gemini will be available on more devices later this year. Google says it will make its way to the Google TV Streamer, Walmart's onn 4K Pro streaming device, certain Hisense TV models and more TCL T... View Source

In a first-of-its kind operation, the United States repositioned one of its spacecraft to inspect an ally's satellite... View Source

You can now buy TCL’s new QM9K series QD-Mini LED TVs, and they run Google TV, are the first to come with Gemini AI, and have a built-in mmWave presence sensor, as reported by 9to5Google. The TVs start at $2,999 for the 65-inch model at Best Buy, with the price going up even more for the bigger versions (up to 98 inches). Using the mmWave presence sensor, the TVs can automatically turn on or off w... View Source

Mercuria Energy Group Ltd. says a former head of one of its US natural gas trading teams misreported transactions in 2024, resulting in “tens of millions of dollars” in losses for the commodity trading firm... View Source

Seemingly contradictory materials are trapped together in two glittering diamonds from South Africa, shedding light on how diamonds form... View Source

Hello! This is Hank Green, general internet guy and cofounder of Complexly. This is my last time in the Decoder guest host chair unfortunately, unless Nilay decides to have another kid someday, but we’re making the best of it. Today, I’m talking with my friend Sam Reich, who is the CEO and, I at least think, founder of Dropout TV. You’ll hear him argue with me about being the founder, and that’s o... View Source

Data-labeling startup Scale AI is launching a new public benchmarking system to rank the best-performing artificial intelligence models for different regions, professions and age groups... View Source

The San Francisco Bay Area was rattled early this morning by a magnitude 4.3 earthquake along the Hayward fault line... View Source

Space company Rocket Lab wants to bring NASA's Perseverance rover samples back from Mars... View Source

The AirPods Pro 3 are on sale for $239 ($10 off) at Amazon. AirPods Pro 3 are among the best earbuds we’ve tested recently, and you can pick them up for  $239.99 ($10 off) at Amazon. The small discount is notable because Apple’s latest earbuds have only been available for three days. In our tests, the AirPods Pro 3 were an improvement over their predecessor in three significant ways: fit, act... View Source

The US will not hold a golden share or equity position in a new entity that will control TikTok’s American operations, according to a White House official, even as President Donald Trump has taken steps toward unprecedented government involvement in other businesses during his second term... View Source

XAI Colossus 2’s is targeting ~1 Gigwatt as soon as possible. They have natural gas turbines for primary generation, batteries for stability, and grid for long-term scalability. XAI Colossus 2 has power from seven installed SMT-360/Titan-350 Natural Gas Turbines. The seven turbines in question are deployed at the Southaven, Mississippi site 6 miles from Colossus ... Read more... View Source

A couple of years ago, I helped start a bike bus in my suburban town in North Jersey. The pandemic was still raging, and we were all looking for ways to get our kids out of the house and on to their bikes so they could get a little physical activity before school. One of the things that helped me get the bike bus started was an electric cargo bike. At the time, my kids were too small to ride the t... View Source

Wall Street banks are set to rely more on their Indian business support centers following President Donald Trump’s shock move to impose $100,000 fees on new applications to the widely used H-1B visa program... View Source

Disney, a company that definitely isn’t dealing with a major crisis right now, has released a trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu. The movie follows on from the events of Disney+ series The Mandalorian — a show that director Jon Favreau created — and the fall of the Empire in Return of the Jedi. It's set to hit theaters on May 22, 2026. The 94-second clip doesn’t offer much in the way of pl... View Source

Newly discovered comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) will soon be gracing our evening sky. Here's how to see it and what to expect... View Source

Major record labels have escalated their lawsuit against Suno, alleging that the AI startup knowingly pirated songs from YouTube to train its generative AI music models. In the amended complaint filed on September 19th, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) accuses Suno of unlawfully “stream ripping” tracks on YouTube — a practice that involves turning content captured from streamin... View Source

Apple Inc. shares broke into positive territory for the year on Monday, the latest milestone in an advance that has put the iPhone maker within striking distance of record territory... View Source

The Roku Streaming Stick Plus is on sale for just $29. That's a discount of 27 percent and the lowest we've ever seen it. Roku has held the top spot in the TV OS market for years thanks to its user-friendly interface, an affordable range of streaming devices and its own lineup of TVs. We picked the Streaming Stick Plus as the best streaming device for free and live content, thanks in large part to... View Source

Ryu and Ken are excluded from these deals, but the rest of the SF6 gang is much cheaper than before. You might have already spent a ton of money building up a modest collection of amiibo, Nintendo’s NFC-equipped figures for Switch and Switch 2. But whether you’re looking to add extras, or you’re just starting out, GameStop has several amiibo figures starting at just $5.99. On Bluesky, Wario64 poin... View Source

ASML Holding NV’s recent rally got a fresh boost on Monday as Morgan Stanley joined the ranks of the stock’s bulls, signaling that the chip-equipment maker may at last show a major uplift from artificial intelligence demand... View Source

The partial solar eclipse was visible to over 16 million people when it darkened the sky over the Pacific on Sept. 21-22... View Source

T-Mobile is replacing Mike Sievert as CEO more than five years after he took on the role. The mobile carrier’s chief operating officer, Srini Gopalan, will become CEO on November 1st, while Sievert will become vice chairman. Sievert took over for the outspoken John Legere following T-Mobile’s merger with Sprint in 2020. While at the helm, Sievert has overseen many acquisitions, including T-Mobile’... View Source

Intel Corp. shares are flying high after the firm secured a string of high-profile backers, but the cash infusions have done little to fix the company’s biggest problem — its money-losing chip-making operations... View Source

Here at The Verge, we try to help our readers by offering news, reviews, and analyses about tech and its relationship to how we live. But one of the things that can most affect our lives is books. Whether they're fiction or factual, whether they're fun or philosophical, whether they offer a story or a recipe, books can impact us in a variety of different - and important - ways. We asked the staff... View Source

Newly-formed Strive Inc. agreed to acquire Semler Scientific Inc. in a deal that combines two publicly-traded Bitcoin treasury companies... View Source

How a space rock vanished from Africa and showed up for sale across an ocean... View Source