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There is only so much you can cram inside a smartphone without sacrificing other things like phone size, internal space, thermal emission, and battery life. One solution is to shrink those components while maintaining or...

Manufacturers and network operators have been pushing 5G technology hard, even throughout a pandemic that forced some industries to stall for a while. Now it seems, however, that one of the most critical pieces of hardwa...

Fortnite‘s ripped, adorable cat skin Meowscles is about to get a big cartoon makeover. Players know to expect the skin — Epic has been teasing it on its Twitter account. One of the official Fortnite Twitter accounts ...

One of the materials being investigated for use in making new types of solar cells is perovskite. The are several drawbacks to the material that researchers are working to overcome, and one of those drawbacks is reliabil...

Modern birds live in just about every habitat on the planet, with only a few having adaptations allowing them to hunt active prey at night. Birds are derived from a group of dinosaurs known as theropods. Scientists have ...

Chromebooks have been recorded to have had a growth spurt since last year, perhaps brought about by work from home and remote schooling arrangements. Of course, using laptops at home isn’t new for Windows and Mac users...

The long-awaited Sailor Moon Eternal films are finally making their streaming debut outside of Japan, and the newest trailer for the double feature promises a gorgeous new take on one of the Sailor Scouts' most compellin...

Just a week after Roku yanked YouTube TV from its app store thanks to an ongoing feud with Google, it looks like YouTube found a clever (if not extremely petty) workaround. On Friday, YouTube announced it would just cram...

It’s hard not to feel sorry for the Volkswagen Golf. Perennially overshadowed by its sportier, more eye-catching Golf GTI sibling, the “regular” car doesn’t have the punchy performance or indeed the badge cachet,...

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest and snazziest merchandise on the internet. This week, Star Wars: The Bad Batch descends on the world of Lego, while Star Trek beams itself back up to action...

Frostpunk developer 11 Bit Studios today announced that the game will soon be coming to iOS and Android. Details on the mobile ports of Frostpunk are still fairly slim, but we know that 11 Bit Studios won’t be handling...

A vaccine designed to help protect against salmonella bacteria is one step closer to reality thanks to research by scientists at the University of Florida. According to a newly published study from the team, particles ca...

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The willingness of digital forensics firms to sell to pretty much any paying law enforcement agency, regardless of the country's human rights record, has stirred up no minor amount of controversy. These tools, critics sa...

Two weeks before Doctor Who star Noel Clarke was set to receive a BAFTA for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema, the organization received multiple anonymous tips from women alleging to have been sexually harassed...

Hot on the heels of Apple's AirTags launch, Amazon announced that it's expanding its Sidewalk network with Tile, smart lock company Level, and elder care smartwatch maker CareBand. The news is the biggest expansion of Am...

Eleven, the ESP-powered girl from Netflix’s hit series Stranger Things, will be a key element in the show’s fourth season. That’s based on the newly released Stranger Things 4 trailer, which hints that viewers will...

Rivian’s all-electric pickup truck may promise zero-emissions and futuristic styling, but the R1T still has to deliver on practicality. That’s just what the Amazon- and Ford-backed startup is talking about today, dro...

The animated adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Carnegie Medal-winning 2001 children's book The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents has already commandeered a huge celebrity voice cast, but apparently there's always ro...

When I turned 21, I was living in New Mexico. My first legally purchased beer was Fat Tire, at the time only available west of the Mississippi. As someone raised in Massachusetts and in an era before the explosion of cra...

An out-of-control Chinese rocket is scheduled to reenter Earth's atmosphere this weekend, but no one is sure exactly when or where the debris will land. Here's why we don't yet know and, more importantly, when we can exp...

BenQ is back with another home projector, and this one is made specifically with gamers in mind. The new BenQ TK700STi 4K projector with HDR support is, according to the company, the first of its kind to offer only 16ms ...