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Device makers have struggled to incorporate temperature sensors into smartphones and smartwatches to turn them into medically accurate body thermometers, but researchers at the University of Washington claim they've come...

Elim Garak, occasional tailor, occasional intelligence operative, perpetual lover of drama, is one of Deep Space Nine's greatest characters. The wily Cardassian weaved his way through chaotic life aboard the titular spac...

A slew of users of the online prediction marketplace Polymarket are betting tens of thousands of dollars on whether the missing Titanic tourist submersible, named the Titan, will be found by midnight ET on June 23, at wh...

DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused alternative to Google, has been working on its own browser. First available on the Mac in open beta late last year, the DuckDuckGo browser is rolling out in beta for Windows starting today...

The human hand is a marvel of evolutionary development, offering 27 degrees of freedom and unrivaled touch sensitivity. But it's the same aspects that make our hands so, well, handy, that also make them an absolute night...

United Airlines is attempting to address stressed flyers' needs with an in-app upgrade that allows customers to rebook their flights and receive vouchers in the case of flight delays or cancellations. The airline changed...

Vape purveyors be warned, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is on a mission to clear the air of cotton candy clouds. The federal agency has issued official warning letters to 189 stores over claims that the retailers...

A rainy weekend threatened to delay the reopening of a collapsed section of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia. But officials called in reinforcements: a giant jet dryer from a nearby race track, according toBillyPenn. The dr...

Did you really think Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3--which caps not only Marvel's trilogy with the heroic misfits, but James Gunn's own stint in the MCU--would come home without a zillion extras? Ahead of its arrival on ...

A twister formed over Texas on Wednesday night, flattening homes and killing a reported four people in the town of Matador. Several others were injured during the storm, according to the Lubbock Fire Department.

At the start of the month, Facebook's parent company Meta announced via blog post its intent to remove availability of all news content from FB and Instagram in Canada, should the government pass its proposed Online News...

When Samuel L. Jackson joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it wasn't a universe at all. It was just the 2008 film Iron Man... but Marvel Studios was clearly feeling ambitious. It signed Jackson to a nine-movie deal eve...

TikTok Chief Operating Officer V. Pappas, the long-time face of the company's US operations, is calling it quits. The top executive revealed their resignation in an email to staff Thursday saying the "time is right to mo...

A new, very official-looking report has just dropped for the upcoming Star Wars movie starring Daisy Ridley but io9 has learned it's mostly inaccurate.

Gaming chairs are close enough in design to office chairs to make it feel like you're doing important work, even if you're just spending hours terrorizing families of five in The Sims. But if you've managed to shrug off ...

Elko, Nevada, is playing host to a real life horror movie scenario. The town is experiencing a substantial invasion of Mormon crickets. Thankfully, the imposing insects are not directly harmful to people.

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Google testers now have the chance to check out another new Duet AI feature in Google Workspace. Starting today, they'll see a new sidebar for Google Sheets. They can describe what they want to do and Duet AI can create ...

Microsoft's $68.7 billion bid to acquire video game maker Activision Blizzard has arrived in court. An evidentiary hearing that pits both tech giants against the Federal Trade Commission began at 8:30 A.M. Pacific (11:30...

Twitch just announced a chat-pinning feature similar to those found on YouTube and other platforms. Hype Chat, beyond sounding like something from 2006, offers a new revenue stream for both streamers and the platform its...

I'll never forget where I was at roughly 3:00 am on May 22, 2008. While most people were sleeping, myself and a few friends poured out of the midnight showing of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull at the ...

Since the gravitational waves predicted by Einstein were first detected in 2015, astrophysicists have been pondering the gravitational wave background--the cumulative undulations of these spacetime ripples as they cross ...