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Valve is on the lookout for new Counter-Strike: Global Offensive weapon skins, and it's hoping to entice creators to submit designs with a $1 million art contest . The company will select 10 original, dream-themed looks....

The upcoming Steam Deck handheld could shape more than just Valve's hardware fortunes. According to a Steam forum post from a Valve employee, the console's user interface will replace Steam's Big Picture mode, a front-en...

A disturbing element of modern cybercrime is just how easy it is to procure powerful and invasive tools--the kind that can wreak total havoc on an unsuspecting victim's computer.

Sony’s latest high-end Xperia flagship made headlines a few days ago and not in a good way. A customer representative revealed what may have been the most disappointing aspect of the Xperia 1 III, and it isn’t about ...

Although Wear OS has been around for a long time now, especially if you consider its former Android Wear incarnation, its strength came from sheer numbers rather than platform strength or brand loyalty. Many found Wear O...

Following a beta release in December, Premiere Pro now officially supports M1 Macs. "From launch times to export, everything is faster, and editing is buttery smooth," Adobe says of the native Apple Silicon version of it...

Muse Group's intentions appear to be good--but they're paving an unpleasant road.

The NSO Group's spyware may have been used to surveil high-level politicians throughout the world, including more than a dozen heads of state, recent reports show.

Samsung has just announced what feels like itszilliontheventthisyear. But at least this one's something we were expecting. The company just sent out invites to Galaxy Unpacked for August 11th at 10am ET, and the event wi...

Welcome back to Gaming Shelf, io9's column all about board games and tabletop roleplaying games. This one is bittersweet because it's the last edition of Gaming Shelf I'll be doing for the site. I've shared more about th...

A newly published video shows a swarm of mosquitoes form into a literal cyclone of buzzing chaos as they terrorize a remote eastern Russian village. Though dramatic in its visual nature and beyond annoying, the mosquitoe...

The scope of Serato's creative audio ecosystem continues to grow with the latest update to its Serato Studio digital audio workstation (DAW). Serato Studio 1.6 rolls out to the public today and most notably adds the abil...

It’s been a rough day for some unfortunate PC gamers. Amazon’s upcoming MMO, New World, entered closed beta yesterday, and it didn’t take long before some participants reported that the game bricked their GPUs. The...

The Perseverance rover is gearing up to drill some Martian rocks, and mission scientists have seen evidence for ancient flash flooding in the dried-up lakebed where the rover landed. NASA shared these updates and more du...

The US Federal Trade Commission has voted unanimously to tackle unlawful repair restrictions. In a policy statement published on Wednesday, the agency said it plans to devote additional resources to enforcing existing la...

This week we got one of the most nightmarish tech privacy stories to rear its ugly head on the internet: an investigation into a trove of location data siphoned from a mobile device belonging to one of the Catholic Churc...

The iPad version of the “14.7” update post-Beta was released today, right around a day after its iOS equivalent. The software operating systems known as iOS and iPadOS are different, each of them different based on t...

A team of microbiologists studying glacier ice in Tibet found 33 different viruses dating back to the Pleistocene in the core samples they pulled up. They suspect that the viral communities may have been active on glacie...

Have you ever been worried that you may have bad breath, yet too embarrassed to ask someone to alleviate your concerns? That’s where a newly detailed gadget comes in, according to the American Chemical Society, which p...

Warner Bros.' expansion of the Bat-wing of its myriad plans for the DC movieverse just took a major leap forward: a new cinematic Barbara Gordon has been found, and it's In the Height's Leslie Grace.

A troll conspiracy to capture a generic Twitter handle has resulted in death, Nashville ABC affiliate WKRN has reported. According to the station, an underage extortionist going after the "@Tennessee" Twitter account pla...

Enhance your movie nights with immersive sound from the Klipsch Cinema 800 Dolby Atmos smart soundbar. It decodes 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos from 8 drivers for audio that fills the room. What’s more, this smart home gadget has ...