Update: April 30, 4:22 p.m. ET: NASA says Hubble is back online and resuming science duties, doing so on April 29. “The spacecraft is in good health and once again operating using all three of its gyros,” the space agency said. “All of…
Apple announced two new offerings to its Beats line of headphones and earbuds. The Beats Solo Buds are a pair of true wireless earphones that promise up to 18 hours of battery life, while the Beats Solo 4 is an upgrade for those looking to…
Jostling on the fault lines of Enceladus’ frozen crust may be responsible for the plumes of icy material spewing from the moon’s watery underbelly, according to a team of researchers that recently modeled the motion.
Dave & Buster’s plans to add a feature to its app that will allow customers to place bets amongst themselves on competitive games, according to an announcement from the entertainment chain on Tuesday. It’s just the latest sign that tech…
Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome are already being drowned in new AI features, so we suppose it was inevitable that Apple would also try to shove some AI activities into its default browser. With Apple reportedly jumping on the AI hype…
SCUF’s Envision Pro controller feels so good, so clicky, so responsive, it makes me hate it. I know it’s not the controller, it’s my dumb thumbs, and yet SCUF’s $180 device feels like a memento mori for all the years I spent trying and…
We hope you like TVs because that’s what April had to deliver in 2024. Samsung showed off its latest Neo QLED 4K TV, while Sony refreshed its entire QLED-based Bravia lineup.
Remember when we called Razer’s Zephyr face mask one of the most disappointing gadgets of 2021? It’s even more disappointing when you realize that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleges the company never even submitted the face mask…
We already knew Fallout was a hit; the Prime Video series based on the popular video games has already been renewed for a second season. But now we know just how much of a hit it is, raking in 65 million viewers globally during its first…
Tyrannosaurus rex was just about as smart as modern crocodiles and other reptiles, according to a team of researchers that investigated recent claims that the Cretaceous predators may have been as smart as monkeys.
Rabbit R1, the bright orange AI gadget that became the talk of the town during CES 2024, was launched and demoed at a private event in New York last week. The “pick-up party” as the company called it was exclusively for the first few…
This guide was updated on April 29 at 8:15 a.m. to include new info about the iPad’s supposed chip and the Apple Pencil, April 24 at 2:10 to include new details on the iPad calculator app, and April 19 at 8:44 a.m. ET to include new rumors…
Before you accuse me of clickbait, hear me out. If you scroll the same corners of social media that I do, then you’re sick of seeing meme puzzle accounts abuse the caption “Only 1% of people can solve!” over some lightweight teasers. Are…
Just before the weekend started, the animation space lit up when someone suddenly leaked a lot of never-before-seen internal material from Disney. We won’t link to it, but included in that material is a sizable amount of stuff from the…
Since it debuted back in 2021, Kyle Higgins and Marcelo Costa’s Radiant Black has become one of Image Comics’ biggest books. Now that it’s got an entire universe of its own full of equally colorful characters headling their own books, it’s…
There are plenty of apps you can turn to to generate pictures using artificial intelligence. Still, Midjourney remains one of the best and one of the most popular options, having launched in beta form in July 2022.
If you thought that Excel spreadsheets were just for mind-numbing office work, think again. A gaming hobbyist has created an Excel-based RPG game that he based on the popular post-apocalyptic game Fallout. It’s the end of the world, all…
Welcome back to the week that was in io9's coverage of the latest, and greatest, in pop culture news. It’s been a busy week, as the highly anticipated new trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine brought with it oodles of insight and analysis on…
In the tech world, developer conferences are like birthdays. These mega-events happen annually and remind us of the cadence of life and that time is a neverending circle. Google I/O 2024 will be no different.
This week Apple got a dose of reality as people are caring less about its Vision Pro. A robot tank with green eyes and a robo dog with a flamethrower show that the future of warfare is here. And to round things out, Elon Musk’s AI bot…
Apple is reportedly holding discussions with OpenAI about using the startup’s AI technology to power some features coming to the iPhone later this year, Bloomberg reported on Friday. This comes roughly a month after reports surfaced that…
In our top stories this week, reporter Passant Rabie explores potential projects to visit and study asteroid Apophis when it performs a close encounter with Earth in 2029. Consumer Reports reveals that about 20% of fruits and vegetables…
Chaturbate will pay $675,000 in fines for not adhering to a new law in Texas that requires all porn sites to verify the age of users, according to a new report from 404 Media which cites a court order released Friday.
If you already hate ads on YouTube, then you’re going to have a bad time with Pause Ads. During its earnings calls on Thursday,Google crowed about the success of the tests it’s run on the ads, which could indicate the “feature” will roll…
Happy Alien Day to all those who celebrate. April 26, as many of you know, is the day pop culture has decided to celebrate one of the landmark franchises in science fiction: Alien. That’s because the planet in the sequel Aliens is LV…
George Lucas. Hayao Miyazaki. Stan Lee. Shigeru Miyamoto. Names such as these have defined our lives. The art and products geniuses like these have created are as important to us as anything. And while we decorate our homes and…
AI-generated video has received a lot of hype lately as a tool that’s supposedly going to revolutionize Hollywood. But Craig Good, a former animator at Pixar who worked on classics like Toy Story and Finding Nemo, isn’t convinced. Good…
Last week, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California released a ruling that concluded state highway police were acting lawfully when they forcibly unlocked a suspect’s phone using their fingerprint. You probably didn’t hear about it.…
The Atacama Desert—an arid, unpopulated swath of northern Chile that is home to some of the most perceptive ground telescopes on Earth—is actually teeming with life beneath the ground, according to a team of researchers that recently…