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Smartwatches naturally have fewer hardware resources than their smartphone partners, but Wear OS smartwatches have been unpopular for having rather mediocre hardware in comparison to other platforms. That is particularly...

Check out the Razer Barracuda X gaming headset if you want expanded compatibility. This gaming gadget features USB-C wireless multi-platform connectivity. What’s more, you can use it with your Switch, PlayStation, Andr...

The Hubble Space Telescope has successfully been switched to its backup hardware, with NASA’s potentially risky fix for the ailing instrument seemingly working as planned. Hubble – which has been in operation for 31 ...

Researchers at Stanford have taken the first snapshots of ultrafast switching inside a quantum electronic device. The team has discovered a short-lived state they believe can lead to faster and more energy-efficient comp...

Humans have the largest brains of any creature on the Earth, so we are always using our brains and thinking about solutions to problems. Scientists have wondered how organisms that lack a brain can determine how to grow ...

Most people tend to use Google to search for anything they need information on, ranging from the mundane to the personal. Few people give a thought to how Google, by default, tracks those searches, one way or another, so...

With the announcement of Windows 11, some people might presume that Microsoft will be focusing its efforts on Windows’ next big installment, and they’d be right and wrong at the same time. Microsoft still has a commi...

The past 18 months have been somewhat unstable for the smartphone market, especially if you take into account the market shares. In addition to the chaos that the COVID-19 pandemic brought to the whole world, Huawei’s ...

If you thought Apple was stingy when it came to camera hardware, then you may not have seen what Google has been putting on its Pixel phones. The first Google Pixel made headlines because of all the tricks it could do an...

Filmmaker Takashi Shimizu is probably best-known for creating the Ju-On: The Grudge franchise back in the early 2000s; it became a sensation in Japan and was one of the top titles, along with The Ring, to emerge from tha...

Bull sharks are coastal creatures, but at least two of the animals were able to make it as far inland as St. Louis by swimming up the Mississippi River, according to a team of researchers who looked at the shark's fossil...

Facebook has rolled out a new library of emojis for its messaging app that adds a new layer of expression to the commonly-used images: sound effects. Facebook calls these Soundmoji, explaining that when selected, the rec...

Climate change concerns combined with the growing availability and affordability of green tech have driven many consumers to explore solar-powered home energy systems, including solar panels that can be installed on one�...

Next week, Impossible Foods — the company behind the ‘bleeding’ plant-based burger — will introduce its next big product: faux chicken nuggets. The unveiling will take place at a trade show next week, according t...

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular roundup of all things good, plastic, and--this week, at least--very, very large. Yes, that's right, we've got the first details on Hasbro's next Marvel Legends crowdfunder project...

If you want most of the companionship that comes with a dog with less of the work, cats are great. They sleep most of the time, and a lot of the rest they're inclined to spend by themselves. Walks are purely an optional ...

Evan Doll will take over some responsibilities leading health product strategy.

Virginia will use $700 million in American Rescue Plan funding to expedite broadband buildouts in underserved communities throughout the state, Governor Ralph Northam announced on Friday. With the investment, Virginia sa...

This weekend starts Pokemon GO Fest 2021, with all sorts of celebratory events and happenings therein. The game Pokemon GO started approximately 5 years ago, making this the official fifth anniversary event, and the bigg...

Writer and director M. Night Shyamalan is returning to the big screen with Old, which promises to be a fresh start for the director who defined modern suspense films in the 2000s. Every one of his projects in his two-dec...

A freshman Congressman close to the Pentagon's now-defunct $10 billion cloud computing deal with Microsoft apparently dumped stock in the company shortly before the contentious contract went belly up weeks ago.

Amazon has added two new celebrity voice options to its Alexa assistant: Shaq and Melissa McCarthy. With these new options, Alexa users will get responses from the personal assistant in the voice of either celebrity, the...