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Given the growing number of young users on the Internet, that has also been a rise in apps that cater specifically to this young audience. Those range from educational or entertainment apps to parental control apps. Thos...

Following a long legal process that started in 2015, Google will pay out $11 million to settle 227 claims from people who believe they were wrongly denied a career at the company because of their age. The settlement agre...

New York City could become the first city in the country to ban the sale of geolocation data to third parties. A bill introduced today would make it illegal for cellphone and mobile app companies to sell location data co...

When New Yorkers were stuck without access to multiple subway lines for 90 minutes on July 19th, that was really just the culmination of ongoing woes. The City has obtained Metropolitan Transportation Authority reports s...

Days after Epic’s ‘Final Showdown’ event in battle royale game Fortnite, the company plans to release another update. The version 9.41 update won’t result in any downtime, the company has confirmed, but it will b...

Apple News+ quality-of-life improvements are front and center as well.

Amazon offers in-car package deliveries for eligible vehicles, the list of which has expanded to include some Honda and Acura models. The automaker announced its involvement in the delivery program on Tuesday, saying the...

Today we’ve got a list of all Shadow Pokemon in Pokemon GO as of this minute – and it’s a rather strange list. Included are the first three obvious entrants, including Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle – the or...

The best running headphones for the average user are the [amazon link="B07R5QD598" title="Powerbeats Pro Totally Wireless Earphones" /]. They come with 9 hours of battery life, a fast-charge feature, great connectivity a...

The Fortnite World Cup finals are coming up this weekend, and if you’re trying to make the choice between watching those matches and actually playing the game yourself, you probably aren’t alone. The good news is tha...

Several U.S. lawmakers have called for further action in the wake of a $700 settlement reached by state prosecutors with the credit bureau Equifax over its disastrous 2017 data breach.

The Justice Department is finally set to being its long-rumored review of monopoly concerns in the areas of online search, ecommerce, and social media, specifically targeting big tech companies such as Google, Amazon, Fa...

If you’re one of the millions of people operating a website, selling items online, or curating Pinterest boards, you’ll likely appreciate the need for high-quality product images. In the absence of a high-end camera,...

Snap appears to be working its way out of a downturn. In the company's Q2 earnings release that just dropped. Snap revealed that it had 203 million daily active Snapchat users in the last quarter, up eight percent year-o...

Now that facial recognition is more common, so are the laws aiming to limit its scope. San Francisco, Oakland, Calif. and Somerville, Mass. have all passed laws prohibiting city use of facial recognition. Now, a group of...

You might think of meteors as flashes in the sky that result in lumpy-looking meteorites on the ground. But not all meteorites are lumps. A substantial population, like the leftovers from the 2013 Chelyabinsk airburst, a...

For soulless ghouls who view the bottom line as superior to basic human rights, for-profit prisons are an apt investment, one that the investment arm of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation just increased its stake in.

When Amazon Prime Video series Homecoming returns for its second season, it'll have a new star. Actor and musician Janelle Monáe is taking over the lead role from Julia Roberts. She'll play a woman who wakes up a canoe ...

Photoshop alternative Pixelmator Pro has been updated to version 1.4 ‘Hummingbird,’ bringing a major change for macOS users: the application’s full suite of tools are now available in the Photos app on Mac. In addi...

The Lion King offers a number of lessons around innocence, deception, and love. However, one of my favorite takeaways from the movie--both the original and the remake--is the so-called Circle of Life. We all know the ter...

QuakeCon is right around the corner, and Bethesda is determined to capitalize on the wave of good vibe for id Software's gaming legacy -- including, we'd add, the looming 25th anniversary of Doom II. To that end, it's la...

San Diego Comic-Con has once again come and gone, leaving us with a flurry of feelings and a lot of hotel restaurant bills for shrimp tacos. io9 was there to experience everything, giving you in-depth coverage on the gro...