The Don has released a beta of his new social media platform and, predictably, it's a knock-off version of an already existing platform. | Continue reading
The drug kingpin's hippos have run wild in Colombia. A new court ruling could help pave the way for a humane way to deal with the world's most invasive species. | Continue reading
A holiday classic gets the massive Lego playset it deserves—no parents or sibling minifigures included. | Continue reading
Remember hoverboards? Segway's still thinking up alternate uses for the contraptions. | Continue reading
Facebook would be following in a long and not-so-proud tradition of toxic companies. | Continue reading
Kids can learn the agony of phone tag and conference calls before they can even walk. | Continue reading
Back in the 1950s, China was going through its Great Leap Forward, an effort to transform China from a largely agrarian nation to a thriving industrial Marxist powerhouse. These sweeping (and often brutal) reforms, touched virtually every facet of Chinese life — and as one partic … | Continue reading
A new government report shows the increasingly dangerous lengths cybercriminals will go to make a buck. | Continue reading
Existing reMarkable users get access to the new subscription plans for free. | Continue reading
It's time to take your Halloween decor to the next level. | Continue reading
The bikes were sold from July 2020 to August 2021. | Continue reading
It's not easy, but someone figured out how to make what Apple refuses to do. | Continue reading
Research shows shady app developers are still grabbing your data without your permission, and Apple hasn't stopped them. | Continue reading
Tesla planned to release beta version 10.2 to roughly 1,000 drivers on Friday, but it didn't happen. Musk cited "last-minute concerns about the build." | Continue reading
It makes it so much easier to follow what your favorite sites are posting. | Continue reading
It's not the world-changing solution some technofuturists think it is—but there are some interesting possibilities. | Continue reading
At New York Comic Con 2021, the Amazon sci-fi series announced a December return for its sixth and final season. | Continue reading
When the app suffered a six hour outage this week, millions of people's lives were thrown into turmoil. Why were they there at all? | Continue reading
Decades of earthshine data show the planet is less bright than it used to be. | Continue reading
The media company announced it was closing on Friday after a week of dramatic revelations. | Continue reading
RT Germany's YouTube account was deleted for spreading misinformation about covid-19. | Continue reading
Nowhere can escape climate change. Even the Earth's crust is feeling the impact of rising temperatures and melting ice. | Continue reading
Kids between 10 and 12 are a 'valuable but untapped audience,' company research says. | Continue reading
J. Michael Straczynski returns to his beloved sci-fi series for a new reboot on the CW. | Continue reading
Doctor Who fan and professional colorizer Rich Tipple tells io9 how he restored some of the show's earliest stories in technicolor glory in his spare time. | Continue reading
The company has a slew of Echo gadgets in the works, some of which we may see next week. | Continue reading
The carefully arranged impressions may have been made by children. | Continue reading
The Internet Archive set out in the 1990s with an improbable mission to become the “Library of Alexandria Two”; by 2020, they’ve arguably surpassed that goal, plus delivered their collection straight to the masses. It’s the only repository where a NASA recap of the Space Shuttle … | Continue reading
Lidar scans of the Teotihuacán Valley reveal how the landscape was engineered centuries ago. | Continue reading
After the Kaseya attack, the feds somehow came into possession of a decryption key but waited nearly a month before delivering it into the hands of businesses. | Continue reading
I don’t think I’m taking a bold stance by saying that any real attempt at eugenics is indefensible. Practically speaking, though, eugenics is just as much of a bust as it is morally. We can’t positively select for “better people,” and we may face dire consequences if we try to we … | Continue reading
The scheme involves people's private data, some secret algorithms, and a lot of apps. | Continue reading
Is it a streaming box? An end-to-end encrypted content-sharing network? Or a store? What? | Continue reading
The Milton Bradley game was invented in 1960 and has sold an estimated 70 million copies worldwide. | Continue reading
A separate group of Senators is also launching an investigation into Instagram claiming it's working with a whistleblower. | Continue reading
Three dots of light reached Earth in 2016, then disappeared. A fourth is still on its way. | Continue reading
Moderation decisions aren't an "illegal in-kind contribution," the FEC told the National Republican Committee. | Continue reading
Before we understood that radiation exposure can be deadly, people thought it was just a fun ingredient to make things glow. Here are some of the amazing, disturbing products from those simpler times. None of these would be deemed even remotely safe today. | Continue reading
Space needs a burdensome and expensive deep clean, and Woz's Privateer apparently wants to take care of the mess. | Continue reading
If you're worried about privacy, it might be time to cover up your front door's peephole. | Continue reading
The new plant can suck carbon dioxide from the air and turn it to stone underground, sequestering 4,000 tons of pollution a year. | Continue reading
Stern is borrowing features from video game consoles to entice pinball players. | Continue reading
WhatsApp isn't the impenetrable private messaging service Facebook likes to claim, ProPublica finds. | Continue reading
The Alexa microwaves weren't enough, so Amazon-branded TVs are rumored to launch as early as October. | Continue reading
GoDaddy said it had given the pro-life tip line 24 hours to find a new hosting provider. | Continue reading
Rains once again inundated the New York subway system, showing how vulnerable it remains to water nearly a decade after Sandy. | Continue reading
Yesterday, Vox somehow managed to write an entire article about the history of Oracle and its founder Larry Ellison without mentioning the CIA even once. Which is pretty astounding, given the fact that Oracle takes its name from a 1977 CIA project codename. And that the CIA was O … | Continue reading
Whether you plan to hit the road for weeks at a time or just take the kids on a road trip, you need some gear for your car. | Continue reading