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  • SpaceX has reportedly filed for an IPO, potentially valuing the company at an astronomical $1.75 trillion, signaling a massive shift in the private space industry.
  • AI continues to dominate headlines, with Anthropic dealing with a significant source code leak and Cognichip securing $60 million to develop AI-designed chips for AI.
  • Cybersecurity remains a critical concern, evidenced by a DeFi platform hack at Drift resulting in millions in stolen crypto, and a cyberattack on Mercor linked to an open-source project compromise.
  • The Artemis II mission has successfully launched, marking a significant milestone in NASA's return to lunar exploration with four astronauts embarking on a journey around the moon.
  • The automotive sector is grappling with recalls and new product unveilings, including Lucid Motors recalling thousands of SUVs over seat belt defects and Kia showcasing its new EV3 model.

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  • Google's $20 per month AI Pro plan just got a big storage boost an hour ago by Steve Dent
    Technology & Electronics, site|engadget, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, language|en-US, author_name|Steve Dent

    Google's $20 per month AI Pro plan, which includes Gemini, Veo and Nano Banana, got a big storage boost and some other new perks. Users of the plan (also available for $200 per year) will see their cloud space jump from 2TB to 5TB at no extra cost. That extra storage can be used not only for AI but also Gmail, Google Drive and Google Photos backups. Gemini can now pull context from Gmail and the web for Drive, Docs, Slides and Sheets, provide summaries for your Gmail inbox and proofread emails before you send them. It's also introducing additional agentic

  • The Artemis II mission has started its 10-day journey around the moon 2 hours ago by Mariella Moon
    Science, Space & Astronomy, site|engadget, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, language|en-US, author_name|Mariella Moon

    The Artemis II mission successfully launched into space on April 1, at 6:35pm Eastern time, from Launch Complex 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It will take NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, as well as Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day trip around the moon. This mission is the first crewed Artemis flight and will lay the groundwork for future trips to the moon itself, the first flight with a crew onboard the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft system and our first foray into deep space since the Apollo program. A few hours

  • Mr. Resident Evil signs a deal with Mr. Stellar Blade 12 hours ago by Jessica Conditt
    Video Games, site|engadget, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, language|en-US, author_name|Jessica Conditt

    Resident Evil legend Shinji Mikami's new studio, Unbound Inc., has been acquired by Shift Up, the company behind Stellar Blade and Goddess of Victory: Nikke. Unbound's unannounced games will be fully supported and distributed by South Korean publisher Shift Up, which is led by CEO Hyung-Tae Kim. Mikami is an icon of Japanese horror as the director of Resident Evil, its 2002 remake and Resident Evil 4, as well as a founder of PlatinumGames and Tango Gameworks. Tango was responsible for The Evil Within series, Ghostwire Tokyo and Hi-Fi Rush. Shift Up recently developed the hit action game Stellar Blade, with

  • What’s going on with Donut Lab? 12 hours ago by Daniel Cooper
    Technology & Electronics, site|engadget, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, language|en-US, author_name|Daniel Cooper

    In January, a Finnish-Estonian startup proclaimed it had developed a truly solid state battery, a holy grail for the technology industry. Donut Labs’ cell wasn’t just solid state, however. It claimed it was made from cheap and easily available materials, would charge to full in a few minutes and last for hundreds of years. If real, such a device would change the face of the world, which is why plenty of people don’t think it is. And, as the company makes more effort to demonstrate it is telling the truth, the more holes people are finding to poke their fingers

  • April's PS Plus Monthly Games include Lords of the Fallen and a trio of remastered Tomb Raider ports 13 hours ago by Lawrence Bonk
    Media, Arts & Entertainment, site|engadget, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, language|en-US, author_name|Lawrence Bonk

    Sony just revealed a trio of PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for April and it's a pretty stacked lineup. These will all be playable on April 7 for subscribers on any tier. After downloading, the games will stay in a player's library as long as the subscription remains active. First up, there's Lords of the Fallen for PS5. This is a sequel to 2014's Lords of the Fallen, despite having the same exact name. The 2023 release boasts a much larger world than the original, but similar fast-paced gameplay. It's an action RPG with nine character classes and hundreds of weapons to


The Verge

  • Trump’s birthright citizenship ban may fail — but the administration already got too far 6 hours ago by Gaby Del Valle
    Policy, Politics, Report

    On Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Trump v. Barbara, a case challenging President Donald Trump's 2025 executive order banning birthright citizenship. Justices seemed skeptical of the administration's argument, but by taking up birthright citizenship at all, they showed how much ground nativists have gained since Trump's first term. The 14th Amendment is quite clear: "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." Trump seeks to overturn this and create a new, effectively stateless American underclas … Read the

  • NASA launches four astronauts toward the Moon on the Artemis II mission 7 hours ago by Jay Peters
    News, Science, Space

    NASA's Artemis II flight, which is set to take four astronauts toward the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years, successfully launched on Wednesday evening. The Artemis II mission, part of NASA's Artemis program that's intended to bring humans back onto the Moon as early as 2028, will bring the four astronauts in orbit around the Moon on the first crewed flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. The astronauts, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Jeremy Hansen, will make the trip aboard the Orion crew capsule, and the full mission is expected to

  • The Artemis Moon base project is legally dubious 11 hours ago by Georgina Torbet
    Law, NASA, Policy, Science, Space

    NASA's Artemis II Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft rest on Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on March 31, 2026, ahead of the crewed lunar mission. | Image: AFP via Getty Images With NASA planning to launch four astronauts on Wednesday on its Artemis II mission, the race to return to the Moon is back on. The current mission will see astronauts aboard the Orion capsule travel around the Moon before returning to Earth in 10 days' time. They'll be testing out the hardware and systems that could soon see Americans standing on the

  • Everything is iPhone now 12 hours ago by Nilay Patel
    Apple, iPhone, Tech

    This is part of our package about Apple's 50th anniversary. Read more here. The thing about the iPhone is that everyone knew it was going to be a big deal, and then it was an even bigger deal than that. Hell, it's still the biggest thing going. It's hard to remember, but almost 20 years ago Apple's first iPhone really was that good. The trick that Steve Jobs and Jony Ive kept pulling off in that era was turning the limitations of the available technology into focal points of the products they made. The first iMac was built around a big, heavy

  • April Fools’ Day 2026: the best and cringiest pranks 12 hours ago by Richard Lawler
    News, Tech, TL;DR

    Welcome to the worst day on the internet! As Chaim Gartenberg pointed out years ago, brands and a holiday dedicated to hoaxes are rarely a winning combo. If you’re a company with any kind of social media, internet, or AI chatbot presence in 2026, you really, truly only have four options on April Fools’ Day: 1. Don’t do an April Fools’ joke. Put the time and energy into doing something productive that will materially benefit the world (or, less idealistically, your business) instead. Or just don’t do anything. Abstaining entirely would still be a net positive over the drain of resources


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