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It only takes a day or so of using Mastodon, a decentralized alternative to Elon Musk's Twitter, for you to conquer the basics. Nearly all of the features one uses daily should be more or less familiar. I'm referring to ...

Gaming keyboards are plentiful and diverse right now. You can buy them in black or white, wired or wireless, and with at least a dozen key switch options. And every year they've gotten bigger and more complex, with media...

Get access to a gaming keyboard with improved acoustics in the form of the Razer Huntsman V2 TKL tenkeyless optical gaming keyboard. Coming with a near-zero input latency, this keyboard takes your gaming experience one s...

Foldable phones have been around for a while, but as is often the case, Apple is moving slowly when it comes to launching one. That didn't stop two DIYers.

Stolen health records for millions of Australians have been publicly released on the dark web following a threat by hackers 24 hours earlier to do precisely that. Last month, the unknown hackers demanded a ransom from Me...

Archaeologists in Israel say they have found the first-known written sentence in Canaanite, an alphabet used by the long-ago inhabitants of the region and until now lost to time.

The biggest merger in gaming history will be undergoing serious scrutiny in one of its largest markets, as the EU's "in-depth" investigation is now underway.

It looks like another challenging week for Elon Musk. Amid the Twitter drama, Musk's more reliable meal ticket has also hit a literal bump in the road.

With the 2024 Audi Q8 e-tron, the brand hits reset on its most high-end electric SUV with better range, performance, driving dynamics, and a cabin fit for five.

Like many of the world's best and worst ideas, MIT researchers' plan to combat AI-generated deepfakes was hatched when one of their number watched their favorite not-news news show.

If you use an iPhone and a Windows PC, syncing photos is about to get a lot easier. The feature Microsoft announced last month that adds iCloud Photos to the Windows Photos app begins rolling out today. Microsoft says it...

The "Black Panther" franchise brings forth a collection of futuristic technology in the fictional country of Wakanda, but not all of it is far-fetched.

Gundam as a franchise is no stranger to some very messed up ideas. War is hell, of course, and the ruling powers that play with it are even more hellish: for 40 years, an unending litany of bad things have happened to th...

Create a dream light setup in the house with the Nanoleaf Lines Squared color-changing LED bars. These lights will give you RGB illumination in a never-before-seen modular form factor. Additionally, these light bars come...

Side-by-side shots of the the dwarf galaxy Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Webb Space Telescope, reveal the impressive resolution offered by the newer telescope.

Twitter rolled out a new "Official" tag for accounts of government and commercial entities but then just as quickly rolled them back so they disappeared.

Apple liked the functionality of this accessory so much, they included it in their latest software update press presentation -- now we see if they're right.

Fantasy author Holly Black (The Spiderwick Chronicles) kicks off a new duology set in the same world as her mega-popular Folk of the Air series with January's The Stolen Heir. io9 is excited to share the first chapter of...

Twitter's employees were unceremoniously laid off days after Elon Musk took ownership, and now workers in Ghana say they weren't offered severance pay.

They're going to need a bigger boat. A group of people fishing in New Zealand were shocked when they picked up an accidental hitchhiker: A massive mako shark that leapt aboard their fishing boat.

If you're planning on buying a graphics card for your gaming PC any time soon, it's time you took a peek at the pitfalls -- before you fall in.

Elon Musk is trying, once again, to sell his vision of Twitter's future to the company's advertisers. Musk, who by all accounts has yet to address Twitter's remaining staff as a group, joined an hour-long "town hall" to ...