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Mars has lots of water, but future astronauts won't exactly be able to scoop it into bottles -- it's generally trapped in ice deposits below the surface. Scientists from Penn State think climate change lasting millions o...

Last week, a suspected thief's getaway vehicle turned into his jail cell when BMW employees managed to track and remotely lock a stolen car in Seattle, according to police.

If you're having WiFi issues in certain rooms and range extenders or powerline plugs aren't doing the trick, there's another option on the market. Plume's mesh-based "pod" WiFi system is now on sale following a pre-order...

Artificial intelligence got a big push today as both Google and OpenAI announced plans to open-source their deep learning code. Elon Musk's OpenAI released Universe, a software platform that "lets us train a single [AI] ...

Medical researchers in California have made a breakthrough in understanding Parkinson’s disease. The discovery was made while performing animal research and a direct link between the brain disorder and a bacteria livin...

We're still not sure when the Karma, GoPro's first ever and ill-fated drone, will return. IF it will return, which may be in doubt given GoPro's financial troubles. But while the Karma itself may not be here, or may neve...

According to police, a North Carolina man arrested after firing an assault rifle in a Washington, D.C. pizza parlor this weekend claimed he came there to investigate "Pizzagate," an online conspiracy theory popularized o...

On Sunday, the European Commission warned Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube and Microsoft that if the companies do not address their hate speech problems, the EU will enact legislation that will force them to do so.

If Internet access is spotty or slow in parts of your house, mesh networking is probably the solution, and here to help with that is Plume. The company launched its Pods WiFi system for pre-order earlier this year, and n...

Verizon may have beat AT&T to the punch, but no matter -- the second-biggest US carrier has started testing 5G wireless technology that promises to bring gigabit bandwidth to our mobile devices in the coming years. In a ...

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Netflix is the pinnacle of streaming home entertainment, but even veteran subscribers probably aren’t using it to its fullest abilities. The video streaming service is full of secrets, some more secret than others, and...

Hello, readers. You may have noticed that recently I haven't been writing about comics for io9. That's because I'm going to be writing comics for Marvel. But don't worry, I'm not going anywhere.

Trump may never remove that dumb tweet about climate change being a Chinese hoax, but there are signs that our prez-elect is warming up to the notion that maybe--just maybe!--global warming isn't a liberal conspiracy. Th...

Inside the newest update to Android is a set of features that’ll change the way users interact with their phones. Some of these features were present last month already on the Google Pixel and Google Pixel XL, while ot...

Digital models of humans can be uncannily accurate these days, but there's at least one area where they fall short: teeth. Unless you're willing to scan the inside of someone's mouth, you aren't going to get a very faith...

Google's excellent Pixel phones launched with Android 7.1, a minor update to Nougat that nevertheless included a few handy features. Now, Google has announced that Android 7.1.1 has started rolling out to other Android p...

We attended the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story press event over the weekend, ahead of the movie's release next week. Spoilers were, of course, verboten--but fun facts and random nuggets were not. Here are five things we le...

For months, 4chan and Reddit users have delved deep into the emails of John Podesta as they were released by Wikileaks and concluded that the emails contained coded language about a secret child-trafficking ring operatin...

Apple isn’t going to make car innovation faster when it’s already slowed mobile device market disruption to a crawl. The newest round of rumors on Apple’s dealings with the auto industry got me thinking. Apple hasn...

Pokemon Sun and Moon are barely out of the gate and already it’s time for the first mythical Pokemon, Magearna, to be given away. This promotion caps off nearly an entire year of mythical Pokemon giveaways, which Ninte...

It snowed in Montreal today and, well, things got kind of crazy on the road. I don't know how many car crashes happened in this one wild intersection, but from what I can gather, the icy roads basically turned all the ca...