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A federal agency is pushing to outlaw AI-generated robocalls after criminals tried to disrupt New Hampshire's Democratic primary with a deepfake phone call from President Biden. The phone call from our sitting President ...

OpenAI released a study the company conducted on GPT-4's effectiveness in creating a bioweapon on Wednesday. The company found that its AI poses "at most" a slight risk in helping someone produce a biological threat. The...

Protect your mobile privacy with the Punkt. MC02. This minimalist Android smartphone keeps prying eyes off your internet use.   -Peace of Mind in a Connected World: The Punkt. MC02 offers a secure and intelligent mobile...

In 2018, Mark Zuckerberg waltzed into the halls of Congress for the most high-profile moment of his career. He was pale and glass-eyed, his tie wrapped loosely around his neck, and his hair cropped high and thin in a biz...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., infamous anti-vaxxer and 2024 presidential hopeful, says he wasn't the one who posted a message on the TikTok page of a fitness influencer who was admiring her glutes after a workout. Sure, RFK Jr....

In collaboration with Porsche, HONOR has released the Magic V2 Porsche RSR. The latest in foldable smartphone technology, it has set a new standard for smartphones everywhere. Foldable phones and what they're good for Ev...

December and January are traditionally lighter months for publishing, but February is ramping things back up again--just in time for picking out a book for your Valentine (or yourself)! Romance is a theme this month--but...

Earlier this week, the team behind the Arc browser for Mac (and recently Windows) released a brand-new iPhone app called Arc Search. As you might expect, it's infused with AI to power an experience where the app "browses...

A couple of years ago, Snap (the company behind Snapchat) decided that the selfie production pipeline needed to be improved upon. Bathroom mirrors and selfie sticks were not cutting it. No, no, Snap decided that the next...

YouTube has hit a new milestone with its Music and Premium offerings. The paid services have more than 100 million users between them as of January, including those who were on a free trial. That's an increase of 20 mill...

Amazon launched a new generative AI shopping assistant, Rufus, on Thursday. The chatbot is trained on Amazon's product catalog, customer reviews, community Q&As and "information from across the web." The company views th...

The start of the year is always a huge time for Lego, so it's not surprising that February is looking a little slim on releases compared to last month. But that doesn't mean there aren't some very cool sets dropping--inc...

Automatic updates broke your phone; the fix is a highly technical manual process.

Lurking inside your reheated fried rice is a dangerous bacterial killer--at least, that's what you might think after watching one of the latest viral videos shared on TikTok and other social media platforms. There is a g...

New subscribers are already banned from sharing logins outside their household.

Apple has made spatial video capture and playback a key selling point of its headset, but it won't be the only device in town that can handle stereoscopic videos. Meta Quest virtual reality headsets are getting spatial v...

Action-packed adventures are coming toNetflix in 2024--including the return of Squid Game, the debut of Avatar: The Last Airbender, Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon: The Scargiver, and fantasy epic Damsel with Stranger Things' M...

The rumors were true: a remake of Until Dawn is coming to PlayStation 5 and PC later this year. As revealed during the latest State of Play showcase, the upgraded version of the interactive horror game is being built in ...

Biogen is abandoning its lackluster Alzheimer's disease drug, Aduhelm. The Massachusetts-based company announced Wednesday that it is pulling the medication from the market following poor sales and controversy over its a...

Comcast is discontinuing its its "Xfinity 10G Network" branding to describe its internet service after a National Advertising Review Board (NARB) panel found that the term could mislead consumers into thinking that Comca...

Pokémon Go creator Niantic is bringing an AR skateboarding game to the Apple Vision Pro mixed-reality headset. The company teamed up with Reality Crisis, another player in the AR gaming space, to create Rodney Mullen's ...

February is here. Let's watch some movies. 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 int...