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China's new state-sponsored dating app, Palm Guixi, is something right out of the dystopia fiction handbook and is receiving mixed responses. The app was reportedly created to streamline the dating process for residents ...

Genesis' strategy of turning gas cars electric continues, with the Electrified GV70 promising near-silent power to go with its style. Does range hold it back?

ChatGPT users reported a strange bug letting them see the chat history titles of other users. It's just another quirk of the closed environment of OpenAI's super-popular AI chatbot and sets another grim reminder that des...

Last fall, NASA's DART spacecraft smashed into Dimorphos, a small asteroid some 7 million miles away, in an unprecedented attempt to change the orbit of a natural body in space. Now, two teams of astronomers have release...

There's no price or release date for Acer's utilitarian, lightweight e-bike.

Hyundai is cooking up the modern equivalent of the gas station attendants from decades past with their EV-charging autonomous robot system.

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In yet another late-night video, former President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social claiming that there is a "witch hunt" against him, even as he claims he will be arrested on Tuesday. No arrest has been made, nor has ...

The loudest voice calling for dramatic Big Tech break up in the upcoming 2024 presidential election might not come from President Joe Biden or progressive lefties, but rather, from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The cons...

The PlayStation 5 is an upgrade over the PlayStation 4, but there are a few areas where the PS4 is actually the preferable gaming machine. Here's our list.

Allergies plague millions of people each year once spring hits, the trees bud, and the flowers bloom, but the worst areas for allergy sufferers have been narrowed down to 20 locations in a study by the Asthma and Allergy...

After Elon Musk's Boring Company received approval to construct one-lane tunnels in the bowels of Las Vegas last year, the company has recently submitted plans for an expansion that will bring a total of 65 miles (105 ki...

The United Nations wants Big Oil to have a seat at the table when it comes to climate solutions--an idea kind of like inviting a fox into a henhouse.

Disentangling ourselves from TikTok is more complicated than simply banning the app, just ask the state of Maryland. According to a new report in The Wall Street Journal, it's one of several states that used TikTok's tra...

Noodle helps alleviate pain and discomfort during injections. The portable device safely numbs the skin in just 25 seconds with electrodes that create light vibrations at the injection site. Noodle uses Transcutaneous El...

Journey back to sixth-century England--by way of 1981 fantasy-movie aesthetics--with Dragonslayer, the tale of a sorcerer's apprentice (Peter MacNicol) who must tangle with the local fire-breathing menace, delightfully n...

Cutting the chord to sign up for a streaming service doesn't mean you have to sacrifice the perk of live television, with these services.

HBO's post-apocalyptic show about society destroyed by a devastating fungal pandemic, The Last of Us, is fiction. However, lethal fungi that can infect humans are very much a reality, and one of the biggest threats today...

Last month, Roblox outlined its vision for AI-assisted content creation, imagining a future where Generative AI could help users create code, 3D models and more with little more than text prompts. Now, it's taking its fi...

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket is being readied in anticipation of the Artemis 2 mission, with engineers putting the rocket together at a facility in New Orleans.

The identity of who mothered Goofy's son Max remains an unsolved mystery. While attending a preview of Disneyland's revamped Toontown, io9 investigated Goofy's home and small-batch candy factory, hunting for answers left...

Microsoft has released Bing Image Creator in partnership with OpenAI. It compliments the company's previously released Bing Chat, powered by OpenAI's GPT-4.