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The Trump administration banned the sale of American technology to the Chinese tech giant Huawei in May but U.S. companies including Intel and Micron are selling computers chips to Huawei once again, according to a repor...

Perhaps with an eye on the next generation of engineers that might be interested in working on its delivery robots or in coding, Amazon is funding computer science and robotics programs at up to 30 public schools in its ...

Today, Polar is launching its newest fitness-focused smartwatch. Dubbed the Polar Ignite, this new smartwatch offers the standard feature set you’d expect to see in a fitness tracker with some extra smart coaching and ...

On Tuesday, members of the Communications and Technology Subcommittee unanimously approved several amendments to a popular House anti-robocall bill aimed at putting the screws to those annoying robotic annoyances that ha...

According to documents obtained by the ACLU, the NSA's problem of collecting unauthorized American phone call data is worse than we first thought. Last May, the NSA deleted more than 600 million call records that it coll...

Red may be an attention-grabbing color, but too much of it can trigger anxiety. You might soon see a lot less of the hue on Facebook. The company is testing the ability to turn off the crimson in-app notification dots th...

In April, the US Department of Agriculture revealed that it had launched a pilot program allowing some SNAP recipients to purchase groceries online. Walmart and Amazon are both participating in the two-year pilot program...

Following reports indicating such a plan was in the pipeline, San Francisco has become the first city in the United States to formally ban electronic cigarettes (“vapes”). The decision results from a vote officials h...

Microsoft is adding a protected section to its cloud storage.

The Federal Aviation Administration has identified another alleged risk with Boeing’s grounded 737 MAX aircraft, a new report claims. This alleged additional risk will need to be fixed before the company can conduct a ...

The ladies of Litchfield Penitentiary are getting one last run: Netflix has released a trailer for the seventh and final season of Orange is the New Black. The show's final episodes wrap up the storylines of the inmates ...

You can get comprehensive lists of everything coming to streaming services anywhere. But half of those titles you don't care about, and the other half are terrible. Where's the good stuff? io9 is here to help.

BMW has revealed its vision of the future of the electric motorcycle, with the BMW Motorrad Vision DC Roadster promising enough heritage to keep long-time fans onboard, but with all the green tech to coax in new riders. ...

If you sometimes feel like the algorithm that generates YouTube’s recommendations has gone off the rails, you definitely aren’t alone. While it’s often good at recommending videos you might want to watch, sometimes...

Every summer as the Arctic warms up, seasonal highways open on the ocean, allowing sea ice to migrate southward and melt. Now, satellite data is revealing that the gateway to one critical highway--the Nares Strait dividi...

The Federal Aviation Administration has discovered another potential risk with the grounded 737 Max that Boeing has to resolve. The issue emerged during a simulator test last week, according to Reuters. As such, a certif...

The relatively limited action Motorola’s seen in the year 2019 could be saved by a leaked device by the name of Motorola One Pro. This device was leaked (again) today in a set of case images, the likes of which seem qu...

YouTube's recommendation algorithm doesn't have the best track record. It's been caught mixing up inappropriate videos featuring popular kid's entertainment characters, pushing home videos of children to pedophiles, and ...

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In a growing number of cities where rideshare platforms operate, drivers are fed up with the low pay, long hours, and lack of basic worker protections that shlepping strangers around entails. In the U.S., this has led to...

The Harvard Microrobotics Lab has announced the latest version of its insect-like RoboBee ‘X-Wing’ is officially the lightest vehicle to achieve sustained untethered flight. The solo flight milestone was recorded as ...

July is almost upon us. That means it's nearly time for Amazon's huge Prime Day sale, which it's expanding to two days this year. But, like Target, eBay isn't content to give its rival all the spotlight, and plans to be ...