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The photograph, taken in visible light, made it possible to observe for the first time the tiny plasma vortices that had been predicted for more than a century.Read more

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 139, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, barbecue sauce, and also you can read…Read more

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The Korea Aerospace Research Institute shared images that show the gash on the surface. It’s pretty small.Read more

My favorite budget laptop, the HP OmniBook 5, has an OLED screen and gets great battery life, despite being just $750 right now.Read more

Sometime next week, NASA’s newest rover on Mars, Perseverance, will set a record for the most distance driven by any vehicle on another world. The automobile-sized rover, which landed on Mars in February 2021, will traverse beyond 45.16 km (28.06 miles) across the Martian surface. In doing so it…Read more

In October 2025, a storm brewed over the Caribbean Sea. Weather models differed on its trajectory. Would it remain weak and end up in Haiti, or would it intensify and head to Jamaica? Artificial intelligence model WeatherNext, developed by Google’s DeepMind and Google Research, went with the latter. Five…Read more

You don’t want any old gaming laptop. Here’s my take on which to get, based on hundreds of hours of testing.Read more

Xteink’s new X4 Pro e-reader is its best yet, but the lack of an ebook store can be limiting.Read more

Plus: A judge rules cell tower dumps unconstitutional, water utility hacks spread to a dozen states, a phishing email opens a missile-parts supplier’s inbox, and a ransomware boss gets 16 years.Read more

New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off.Read more

Two security researchers bought cheap domains—including noreply.net and deleteduser.com—and set up email listening services. Hundreds of companies are sending them corporate secrets.Read more

Hairmax’s LaserBand 82 ComfortFlex took only 90 seconds per treatment, and it produced visible results along my widening part.Read more

If you want to capture the sun’s power with solar panels, these are the best solar generators I’ve tested.Read more

With rising temperatures and drier conditions, fires are more likely to explode. And with more people living next to forests, the results can be catastrophic.Read more

A new software update builds on WhatsApp’s group chat chops by adding anonymous polls and introducing an easier way to start a smaller private chat away from the larger group.Read more

The Nitecore NB10000 Gen 4 power bank is a…Read more

Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026.Read more

Restart, a games media website launched in late 2024 that was sponsored by Walmart, has laid off its “entire…Read more

The wildfires afflicting communities across the world can now be tracked more easily by anyone using Europe’s free and open satellite imagery service—all thanks to a wildfire visualization script originating from nearly a decade ago. The Copernicus Browser provides free access to the latest satellite imagery taken by the…Read more

Berkshire Hathaway’s chief ends more than three-year selling streak as he ploughs a net $20bn into stocksRead more

Dane Renkert played professional baseball for the Milwaukee Brewers before moving into tech and sales leadership roles. Today he’s co-founder and CEO of Barkie, a startup building a voice-first AI caddie that tracks golf scores by speech alone.  As Read more

Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine just discovered a new brain phase. A single-cell study identified a new biological phase the brain may enter between 50 and 75. The research offers new, important insights about brain aging and cognitive decline….Read more

Basketball legend and entrepreneur Shaquille O’Neal has opened a Big Chicken restaurant location in Maryland. The location, which opened this week, is the first for the state.  Off the court, Shaq has built an impressive $500 million empire, and owns dozens of car washes,…Read more

On the tarmac at Manchester Airport in the U.K., waiting to board Virgin Atlantic’s flight to Orlando, my iPhone managed 1.4 megabits per second over 5G. Checking again mid-flight, that number had increased to 282 megabits per second, routed through a satellite constellation a few hundred miles overhead. I…Read more

5 Small Business Ideas with the Best MarginsBy Chris Morris If you’re looking for a small business idea with room to grow, it’s helpful to look at businesses with a strong margin. Those profits can make it easier to add…Read more

In 2017, I bought my first Birkin. Not because I wanted to impress anyone. Not because it was a status symbol. I bought it because I saw it as an investment. As an entrepreneur, I naturally look at assets differently. If something has the…Read more

According to a series of studies published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, participants who took a daily multivitamin for three years experienced a 30 percent improvement in memory, recall, and cognitive function compared with the placebo group. That’s great, but the benefits from taking a daily multivitamin…Read more

Decision widens rift between Pedro Sánchez’s government and rightwing Italian premier Giorgia MeloniRead more

When the people who write CPG launch playbooks for a living started a brand of their own, they threw out the playbook entirely. Plainspeak, a new wellness brand for women 35 and older, arrived without a splashy ad campaign, an army of paid influencers,…Read more

Could you imagine the iconic New York City Ballet residing in any place other than New York? Or SXSW packing up and leaving Austin? It is rare for a cultural institution, so strongly identified with its place of origin, to just up and move. In turn, it was…Read more

Why hasn’t all the chaos in the real world inspired more interesting art?Read more

We need to find ways to lift the financial and resource constraints on new homebuildingRead more

His 1960s science-fiction visions are a guide to our age of erratic billionaires, wild space fantasies and glitchy, invasive technologyRead more

Chinese AI start-up targets Hong Kong listing to raise fresh funding for next phase of developmentRead more

More than 4,800 consumer complaints about Hims & Hers have reached the Federal Trade Commission over the past five years, including allegations from customers who say they were unexpectedly charged hundreds—or even thousands—of dollars for prescription medications they did not want. The FTC disclosed the…Read more

What if the biggest leadership problem in your company is not a shortage of talented people, but the way you select, promote, and develop managers? Poor leaders are not always bad people. Many are smart, hardworking, and technically gifted. They were promoted because…Read more

Rockstar Energy founder Russ Savage has built a roughly $300 million stake in Celsius Holdings. Now he wants its CEO fired—and says he’ll take the job himself. Savage told CNBC Friday that he owns more than 12 million Celsius shares, or roughly 4.7 percent…Read more

Lacklustre figure prompts traders to scale back bets on Fed rate risesRead more

Move comes after Supreme Court ruled in June that policymaker could remain in her position while case is resolvedRead more