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A prototype of a lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic thruster was tested in a special chamber at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in February 2026. With further development, thrusters like this could be part of a nuclear electric propulsion system powering human missions to Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A technology that could propel crewed missions to Mars and robotic spacecraft throughout the solar system was recently put to the test at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. On Feb. 24, for the first time in years and at power levels exceeding any previous test in the United States, a team fired up an electromagnetic…

Last week, Dead by Daylight developer Behaviour Interactive laid off an at-the-time undisclosed number of its employees. It claimed that these individuals were largely affiliated with “mobile and casual external development projects” and were being let go due to a decrease in demand for such projects. But the company also confirmed to Kotaku that developers on its flagship horror franchise Dead by Daylight were among those laid off, and the timing of the cuts, so closely following both a recent union push at the company as well as unrest over changing policies, has some questioning the motives behind the cuts. Alongside…

Greg Hogan, an affiliate of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), will serve as acting assistant commissioner of the Technology Transformation Services (TTS), a unit within the General Services Administration (GSA). There, he will oversee Login.gov, the government’s secure login and identity service.Gregory Barbaccia, the federal chief information officer and acting director of TTS, wrote in an email to TTS staff that Hogan will be focused on growing Login.gov’s user base, with the ultimate goal of the product “becoming a world-class identity platform recognized beyond the federal government.” Until earlier this year, TTS was led by Thomas Shedd, a…

It was only a matter of time before they found a way to use AI agents as corporate shills. On Tuesday, Snapchat rolled out AI Sponsored Snaps, a “new way for brands to show up in Chat through AI agents.” Or, put another way, it’s conversational advertising. (Yay?)AI Sponsored Snaps will appear in the app’s Chat tab (with a light gray “Ad” notation next to the brand name). After opening the chat, you can ask the agent questions about the brand it represents. Snap showed an example from its first partner for the initiative, Experian. The bot offers to answer…

Scientists have long assumed our universe would continue on for trillions of years, but a new study presents a much shorter life span for the cosmos: Our universe might last only another 33 billion years.That’s just a cosmic blink before everything collapses in on itself ‪—‬ a process dubbed the “Big Crunch,” where expansion reverses, causing all matter and space-time to collapse back into an extremely dense state similar to the conditions of the Big Bang. While long considered a discarded possibility for the fate of the universe, because of accelerating cosmic expansion, this new research has reopened the surprising…

There’s apparently no hope for Spiders to survive its current debt restructuring amid parent company Nacon’s insolvency. French outlet Origami reports that the court procedures the RPG maker is currently going through are essentially just a “formality” at this point as sources within the 18-year-old Parisian studio scramble to find other jobs. “The CSE is organizing, as best it can, the buyback of equipment by employees who wish to do so, and the Spiders staff has chosen to turn tonight’s final weekly drink into a formal tribute to the studio’s eighteen years of existence,” Origami writes. Spiders was one of…

I’m a nighttime reader. I usually read in the dark with my e-reader of choice in its native dark mode (if you’re unfamiliar, it’s the mode that turns the background black and all text and lines white, making it much dimmer but still easy to read). That allows my husband and even my almost-4-year-old to snooze next to me while I read, with no beacon of light blasting from my device.It’s no surprise that, as such a nighttime reader, the lack of dark mode on the Kindle Colorsoft or Kindle Scribe Colorsoft was a big complaint for me. Yes, you can turn the page…

Google has signed a deal that allows the US Department of Defense to use its AI models for “any lawful government purpose.” This is according to a report by The Information, which also notes that the full details of the contract are classified.An anonymous source within the company has suggested that the two entities have agreed that the search giant’s AI tech shouldn’t be used for domestic mass surveillance or autonomous weapons “without appropriate human oversight and control.” However, the contract also reportedly doesn’t give Google “any right to control or veto” anything the government decides to do. In other…

Astronauts Chris Williams of NASA and Sophie Adenot of the European Space Agency work together in the Kibo laboratory module’s Life Science Glovebox, processing genetic-material samples for the DNA Nano Therapeutics‑3 experiment. The investigation is exploring DNA‑inspired assembly techniques as a way to manufacture treatments—such as chemotherapy and immunotherapy—that can kill cancer cells and activate the immune system. Find out what’s happening on the International Space Station on the blog. Image credit: NASA/Jessica Meir

Back in February, due to the ongoing RAM shortage affecting the entire tech world, it became much harder to buy a new Steam Deck. Inventory sold out and wasn’t replaced. Valve now says it’s “working hard” on fixing the situation. But don’t expect any miraculous changes overnight as Valve is dealing with the same global memory shortage as every other company. On April 27, as part of Valve’s big Steam Controller marketing blitz, Valve programmer Pierre-Loup Griffais talked to IGN about the Steam Deck and if it would continue to be in-and-out of stock or if Valve had a timeframe…