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For as long as motorcycles have existed, enthusiasts have been upgrading their rides with new components. Taking that idea to the 21st century, the new 2022 SR from Zero Motorcycles allows you to push its capabilities wi...

io9 is proud to present fiction from LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE. Once a month, we feature a story from LIGHTSPEED's current issue. This month's selection is "I Was a Teenage Space Jockey" by Stephen Graham Jones. You can read t...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released the results of its latest decadal survey, which outlines science objectives for the astronomical community over the next 10 years. The three biggest ...

The folks at OWC make devices that emphasize the power of the tech without unnecessary frills. The industrial design of the products this company makes are often minimal, simple, and ergonomically efficient. When we’re...

The pandemic is impacting industries worldwide, particularly those that rely on high-tech microchips for their products. With pandemic-related shutdowns, the supply of microchips is low, something hitting the automotive ...

Scientists observing distant planets and galaxies are looking for indications that there might be planets orbiting in the habitable zone of stars. In addition to looking for those planets, they are also looking for indic...

SpaceX's Starlink will eventually have more competition in the satellite broadband business--and rural Americans will have more providers to choose from. The FCC on Wednesday gave Boeing the go-ahead to launch its own sa...

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has authorized Boeing’s request to build and launch its own satellite-based Internet service, paving the way for another competitor to SpaceX’s Starlink project. Accordi...

With an internal rechargeable battery system and 4G LTE connectivity, a new camera from Arlo and Verizon aims to make remote security monitoring slightly easier for consumers. The device has a rather to-the-point name: A...

Since Windows 8 in 2012, Microsoft has been trying to change the venerable Start menu and has been met with so much backlash that forced it to compromise, one way or another. With Windows 11, however, it’s finally sett...

Epic Games announced a twist when it revealed its last Fortography challenge: it wasn’t about images at all this time around, but rather videos and how creative players could make them using the game and its various as...

What's the line between making a retro action figure and one that just looks like crap? I don't know, but Bandai certainly seemed to have crossed it with this new line of "Stranger Things Feature Figures." These toys of ...

Electric transport startup Rivian has been sued by one of its former employees. Per The Wall Street Journal , Laura Schwab, an executive who was a vice president of sales and marketing at the automaker until last month, ...

Crypto exchange Binance has announced that it is investigating SQUID, the Squid Game-themed cryptocurrency, and will turn over whatever information it uncovers to the appropriate law enforcement agency.

If you live in a van or on a boat, where wired internet is scarce, Arlo's new security camera sounds tailor-made for a nomadic lifestyle.

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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has officially lost its lawsuit against NASA over the agency's decision to award SpaceX a $2.9 billion lunar lander contract. The ruling will likely reduce further delays that threatened to preven...

It's tiny, incomplete, and undeniably awesome. Named "Leti," this is the first known skull belonging to a Homo naledi child--a fossil that's shedding new light onto this mysterious group of extinct humans.

It's been far too long since the last truly new 2D Metroid game. To find it, we have to go back nearly 20 years to the release of Metroid Fusion for the Game Boy Advance. In the time since then, we've had the excellent M...

Apple might loosen its mask requirements at some stores after months of taking a cautious approach. Bloombergclaimed to have an Apple memo outlining plans to lift mask requirements at more than 100 of the iPhone maker's ...

The coronavirus behind covid-19 appears to have found another species in which it can easily reproduce and spread. Preliminary research out this week seems to confirm that the virus is now freely circulating among wild d...

Hyundai has shared a handful of teaser images of the Seven, a new all-electric SUV the automaker plans to debut at the AutoMobility LA show later this month. The company notes the concept "hints at a new SUV model coming...