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The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) plans to perform an in-depth probe into Adobe's acquisition of Figma, the agency announced today (viaThe Wall Street Journal). Citing concerns about "a substantial lesseni...

Meta is gearing up to debut a new type of Facebook ads that will allow users in the European Union to download apps without having to visit their mobile platform's app store, according to The Verge. Yes, it will offer a ...

YouTube is looking to take a more aggressive approach in preventing viewers from using ad blockers while watching videos on its platform. As BleepingComputer reports, people have been posting screenshots on social networ...

Warnings about artificial intelligence (AI) are ubiquitous right now. They have included fearful messages about AI's potential to cause the extinction of humans, invoking images of the Terminator movies. The UK Prime Min...

Joby Aviation has been cleared by the FAA (Federal Aviation Authority) to start flight tests on its first production prototype air taxi, the company wrote in a press release. It's a large step in the company's aim to sta...

Spotify might soon let you watch music, not just listen to it. Bloombergsources claim the streaming service is mulling the addition of full-length music videos to its app. The company is reportedly talking to potential p...

Nimona is now streaming on Netflix and if you've seen it, you know the long wait for its arrival was incredibly worth it. (If you haven't yet watched, you're in for a delight.) To celebrate the animated film--adapted fro...

A new class action lawsuit accuses ChatGPT creator OpenAI of criminally scraping data from all over the internet, then using the stolen data to create its popular automated products. The lawsuit, filed this week by the C...

Blizzard has released a string of excellent Overwatch animated shorts over the years. While the shorts are sublimely rendered and help to sketch out the backstories of the cast, Blizzard hasn't neatly pulled together the...

With that exciting new trailer for Dune: Part II arriving this week, there's no better moment to pile on more good Dune news. This time, it concerns the long-in-development Dune streaming series, Max's Dune: The Sisterho...

Sony blocked Roblox from PlayStation consoles because it was worried about inappropriate content reaching children. The revelation comes from a 2022 document, first reported byAxios, uncovered in the FTC's Microsoft tria...

Lull your baby to sleep anywhere with the Hatch Rest Go sleep aid for babies. This portable sound machine helps your little one drift off no matter where you are. Check out the features that make it a must-have for..

Animations created by NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio include images and videos showing what carbon emissions would look like if they were visible in our atmosphere. The videos of the swirling emissions were relea...

July is here, and it's brought with it an almost overwhelming array of new sci-fi, horror, and fantasy books. Whether you're in the mood for magic, monsters, or mysteries--or some combination of all three--io9's monthly ...

The cosmos is a hostile but beautiful place; from Earth, its phenomena--from our Sun and the aurorae it generates to nebulae and distant galaxies--are worth capturing.

The Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ) has proposed a formal ban on fake reviews and testimonials. Companies would also be prohibited from using phony followers and views to inflate their social media metrics if the rule t...

Ars spoke to devs about their apps' future & what they learned from this ordeal.

A few mosquitos in Florida have tested positive for the the parasite that causes malaria. The finding follows multiple confirmed human cases of the disease--four in Florida and one in Texas--believed to be the first dome...

Let's get streaming! Welcome to io9's latest edition of the Nerd's Watch, where we pare down the enormous lists of new films and television shows arriving on all your favorite streaming services into the sci-fi, fantasy,...

The official Game Boy Camera is a treat for fans of lo-fi photography, but it's also on the larger side, protruding from the retro console like a giant, creepy eyeball. That's why modder and mega-fan Christopher Graves m...

It looks like baby talk isn't just for humans. New research this week suggests that dolphin mothers also adopt a higher-pitched tone during certain forms of communication with their young.

University of Toronto professor Geoffrey Hinton, often called the " Godfather of AI " for his pioneering research on neural networks, recently became the industry's unofficial watchdog. He quit working at Google this spr...