Like a similar feature on Google's Pixels, the devices' accelerometers would detect impact and auto-dial 911. | Continue reading
The SQUID coin scam was covered uncritically by mainstream news outlets. | Continue reading
A survey of the world’s top climate researchers shows a stark finding: Most expect catastrophic levels of heating and damage soon—very soon. | Continue reading
Warren Buffet's right-hand man, Charlie Munger, designed a mammoth dorm with limited windows and only two entrances for 4,500 students. | Continue reading
You're going to read this, and you're going to say, how is this about tech? I'm gonna head you off at that pass: This is a message from Internet, the generation that became the voice that set the tone for everything you love about the Net. And it's pissed. -Editor | Continue reading
An international task force focused on curtailing financial crimes has published a new report suggesting the need for additional strictures on digital currency. | Continue reading
Fossil fuel companies are sponsoring some of the Beltway's most-read newsletters in an attempt to win influence in Washington, DC. | Continue reading
Your Roku-watching habits are up for grabs now that the company's Nielsen ratings are taking effect. | Continue reading
Coinstar, the company that allows you to trade in coins for cash or gift cards, has launched a bitcoin purchase pilot at 200 kiosks located in Walmart stores. | Continue reading
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