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View the sky in a whole new way with the BloomSky Outdoor Weather Station Kit. This full featured weather device is equipped with high grade sensors along with a camera so you can record the most interesting weather happ...

Google's cooking up a new travel app that combines the best of Maps with Now, the company's prescient personal assistant. Except Trips, as it's apparently called, is not quite ready for primetime (or the Google Play stor...

We're more than half a year into Alphabet's formation and we're still seeing the ripples and effects. Some products still haven't found a proper home and some that already do are still being relocated. Take, for example,...

Back in the early days of the Windows 10 upgrade rollout, Microsoft was put on the hot seat for silently changing previously configured user settings. Specifically for changing the default web browser to the new Microsof...

If you're going to do an X-Men movie set in the '80s, which record album are you going to show Cyclops and Jean Grey picking up? There's really only one option.

Taking a cue from Netflix, Hulu isn't slowing down with its original programming. Today, the streaming service announced that it's ordered a full series adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood's seminal sci-fi...

The Large Hadron Collider recently went offline, prompting engineers to start poking around for an explanation. The machine is 17-miles long, and hunting down a cause can be time consuming; it wasn't long before the prob...

The Samsung Galaxy S6 for AT&T is just the latest in a line of Android 6.0 Marshmallow updates to the Galaxy smartphone line. The Samsung Galaxy S7 has been updated in basically all iterations - as well as the Samsung Ga...

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In the early days of World of Warcraft, most places you visited (at least as an Alliance player) were fairly bright and cheerful. However, there was one location that always stood out for me. Duskwood felt a lot like the...

The prize inside Cracker Jack boxes will soon be digital codes, and those digital codes will take consumers to a "one-of-a-kind mobile experience," Frito-Lay has announced. This is perhaps the biggest shift to the Cracke...

For six years, an underground garbage fire has been steadily burning outside of Saint Louis, Missouri, right next to a landfill filled with nuclear waste buried in the mid-70s. So why hasn't anyone managed to extinguish ...

Earlier this month, we heard that Jibo the companion robot had been delayed, and wouldn't be shipping out to backers this April as previously said. The company didn't know when it would start shipping, but said it would ...

When I started working on io9 in 2007, we didn't have a name for the site yet. We hadn't come up with any real plans for how we were going to cover science fiction, science and futurism. But there was already a central i...

I laughed. Pretty hard, actually. Right when the fluffy cloud that is cotton candy started oozing sweet sugary alien blood, I laughed hard. It's so ridiculous and it disappears so quickly and breaks down in such a ballet...

The way I see it, everybody has a "thing" they do when they get high. Some people gorge themselves on as many edible objects as will fit in their cottony mouths. Other people lay in the dark and listen to Phish. Still ot...

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of boldly going where no-one has gone before, the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space museum in NYC will host "Star Trek: The Starfleet Academy Experience." From July 8 to October 31, you too can ...

Have you ever holed up in your apartment for several days, left, and returned to realize how stagnant it smells? When you close up your home, you’re getting a buildup of carbon monoxide, 2nd hand smoke, pollen, pestici...

Kobolds and goblins and adventure - oh my! All at Twitch.tv/thinkgeek ThinkGeek is livestreaming a one-shot Dungeons and Dragons campaign for International Tabletop Day! Join the adventure at 3 PM ET, Saturday April 30th...

It's Lenovo's most beloved business laptop: the X1 Carbon. The fourth-generation model has been released, and it's as beautiful as ever, bringing the best aspects of the X1 Carbon line and refining them with updated hard...

Google Glass may have been too clunky to succeed in its original version, but the search giant will find its way into your eyeballs one way or another. According to a new patent filing, the company has devised a method t...

This morning the folks at Verizon announced that the HTC 10 would indeed be coming to their stores on pre-order soon. That's as promised, as it were. They've also posted their own unboxing video, as they often do, and ha...