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Popular spice brand McCormick has recalled some of its spices, as well as a Frank’s RedHot product, over potential contamination with salmonella. The recall was first published on Monday, advising consumers to stop usi...

In the past, we've seen doctors use AI software to detect brain tumors, kidney illness and various cancers. Now, researchers from IBM and Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF) say they've developed a program that can predict ...

Amazon has been handed its largest ever privacy fine in the EU by Luxembourg's data watchdog. The CNPD fined the company €746 million ($888 million) on July 16th for violating the bloc's strict data privacy laws, known...

Scientists have leveraged data gathered using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in a new study. The information gathered suggests that previously displaced gases can re-accrete onto galaxies. That p...

Robotics researchers from the University of Maryland have created a 3D printed soft robotic hand. One of the biggest problems with robotic hands so far is that they lack the dexterity required to perform some tasks. The ...

Americans are used to hearing about what a great country they live in--how lucky they are to have been born in, or to have immigrated to, the United States. "American exceptionalism"--a phrase, funnily enough, coined by ...

Don't get too excited--the new glasses won't have integrated display capabilities.

This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new guidance on masking for those fully vaccinated against covid-19, recommending that people living in areas of high transmission once again don masks whi...

Filmmaker Taika Waititi is involved with so many things it's very easy to forget one or two. For example, you probably remember he's making Thor: Love and Thunder, and he's supposed to do a Star Wars movie. You may even ...

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has published its response to Blue Origin’s and Dynetics’ protests over the lunar lander contract granted by NASA to competitor SpaceX. The protests were filed in late April...

It turns out some Members of Congress despise the five-day workweek as much as the rest of us. This week, Rep. Mark Takano of California introduced groundbreaking legislation meant to make four-day workweeks the norm in ...

PlayStation fans will have to wait until 2022 to play Horizon Forbidden West,according toBloomberg. The outlet reports the company has delayed its next big PS5 and PS4 exclusive to next year, pushing it back from its cur...

It's happened to all of us: You've been browsing your hard drive and found hundreds of gigabytes of lengthy video files of the inside of your office, apparently filmed without your awareness. Dozens or possibly hundreds ...

Many people around the world turn to caffeinated beverages to get a boost of energy in the morning or to help them focus on a difficult task. According to a new study from the University of Greenwich, caffeine offers sim...

Extreme heat is blanketing a huge portion of the country, save those in the Great Lakes and New England (you lucky, lucky bastards). A staggering 81 million are living in areas under some form of heat warning from the Na...

Take a whole bunch of fun games with you anywhere with the Panic Playdate handheld console. This tiny game console features a special black and white screen. It’s not backlit, but it’s reflective and provides impress...

Store your cards in the beautiful Nomad Card Wallet Plus. This leather good features Nomad’s signature Horween leather that’s been thermoformed, creating plenty of space for your cards. That way, your wallet doesn’...

It's a known fact that we here at io9 are quite fond of stories set at spooky boarding schools, so we're very excited to be sharing an exclusive excerpt from Victoria Lee's witchy new boarding school-set novel A Lesson i...

Apple CEO Tim Cook is not known for losing his cool. He's had stern words for Facebook, and people trying to make a TV show based on Gawker for Apple TV+, but generally speaking? Cook comes off as a genial, if surprising...

They're red, they're reasonably big, and they have no business being in the main asteroid belt, but their discovery confirms the complex conditions in place when the solar system was still forming.

Everybody needs a plan to survive the zombie apocalypse, climate apocalypse, financial apocalypse, or all of the above. You need your shotgun, your go-bags, and your pickup truck but mostly you just need a good place to ...

On June 15, Disney World dropped its face mask required for guests who had been fully vaccinated. Fast-forward a little over a month and the same face mask requirements have been reinstated, meaning every visitors must w...