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In the past week, an undetermined number of Build a Rocket Boy staff have been laid off from the MindsEye developer, marking the third time in the past year that the studio has made staff redundant. However, while the number of employees affected is currently unknown, sources familiar with the restructuring tell Kotaku that roughly 170 members at the studio have been affected by the layoffs, bringing the total number of staff at the studio down to somewhere around 80 employees. While Build a Rocket Boy has yet to publicly announce the layoffs, several staff members have made posts on…

NASA-funded scientists have discovered that life on Earth over 3 billion years ago relied on the metal molybdenum, which was incredibly scarce in the environment at the time. The study, published in Nature Communications on Tuesday, is the first to show that molybdenum was used by ancient life this far back in our planet’s history. On Earth today, molybdenum helps speed up vital biochemical reactions in cells. The metal is a component of essential enzymes that drive several major biological reactions in organisms. This is not only important for the individual organisms, but also biogeochemical cycles, such as the nitrogen…

I’m developing a TV series with the BBC, which has been an ongoing project for many years that I’m so excited about. Then I have a movie in development as well with Amazon MGM and Ryan Pictures. That’s kind of like my own romcom.You play the lead, right?Yeah. I’m going to be playing myself. It’s like the Chicken Shop Date movie.Do you find love at the end?Well, you have to watch and find out.I hope so.I hope so, too. I mean, it’s a rom-com, so…It’d be a terrible rom-com if you didn’t.I mean, if it’s not happening in real life,…

Alexa+ is now available for a bunch of Bose products, including some just-announced devices like the Lifestyle Ultra Speaker and Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar. This marks the first time the upgraded smart assistant has been officially integrated into something other than an Amazon-made device. The Lifestyle Ultra line doesn’t launch until May 15, but preorders are open right now. Otherwise, Alexa+ is currently available on Bose products like the Smart Ultra Soundbar, the Home Speaker and the Portable Smart Speaker, among others. For the uninitiated, Alexa+ is Amazon’s latest smart assistant and represents a fairly…

Back in December, it was announced that Mass Effect and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic director Casey Hudson is working on a new Star Wars game at Arcanaut Studios called Fate of the Old Republic. Though its name is similar, it won’t be a direct continuation of BioWare’s legendary Star Wars RPG. However, the studio has now announced some of the creative leads working on the game, and it’s basically a big BioWare reunion. Arcanaut Studios’ website has been updated with mini-profiles of some of the company’s leadership, and several folks are veterans of the RPG studio that…

Students in Florida will hear from NASA astronaut Chris Williams as he answers prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) questions while aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will begin at 11 a.m. EDT Friday, May 8, and will stream live on the agency’s Learn With NASA YouTube channel. This event is hosted by the Aurelia M. Cole Academy in Clermont, Florida, for students in grades K-12 and members of the community. This unique opportunity aims to deepen understanding of space exploration and enhance awareness of STEM careers. Media interested in covering the event must RSVP by 5…

Three months after Pornhub blocked access to new users in the United Kingdom, the adult entertainment company says it will be allowing users there to view its content as long as they verify their age through an Apple device.Aylo, Pornhub’s parent company, made the announcement Tuesday, noting that the release of Apple’s iOS 26.4 is the “first ever device-based age-verification solution for its users in the UK” which it claims will “better protect children everywhere.”As such, the company says UK users on iOS devices and iPads (not MacBooks, which use a different operating system) will be welcomed back into the…

Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images Coinbase is the latest tech company to gut its workforce as part of an AI-centric restructuring. The company will lay off approximately 14 percent of its total headcount, CEO Brian Armstrong wrote in a blog post. According to Reuters, that equates to around 700 employees. Armstrong claimed he’d seen engineers “use AI to ship in days what used to take a team weeks” and that non-technical teams in the company are “shipping production code,” while Coinbase is automating many of its workflows. “All of this has led…

In the lobby of Gotham’s Iceberg Lounge, Batman and Jim Gordon brawl through a mob of criminals until there’s only one left standing. A prompt hangs over his head. With the press of a button Batman begins his finisher, sweeping the legs of the thug so fiercely his body forcibly spins upside down. I watch as Bruce punches him in slow motion so hard, his body disassembles completely. WHACK. Moments later, Batman descends down a massive rubber slide into a large ball pit. I’ve reached the underbelly of the underbelly: Falcone’s House of Fun. I smile. I’ve been struggling to…

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. It’s been over a decade since engineers officially got to work on the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST). Designed in collaboration with NASA, Lockheed Martin’s state-of-the-art aircraft is built to fly very high and very fast, all without leaving a telltale sonic boom in its wake. Lockheed finally revealed the X-59 to the public in January 2025 a few years behind schedule, and completed its first subsonic test flight that October.  They’ve been making up for lost time ever since. The X-59 has flown…