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Our review of Apple's new MacBook Airs is out, and our esteemed reviewer Devindra Hardawar gave them both equal scores of 90. That's a very good score! But I think Devindra's underselling the 15-inch MacBook Air, which i...

Truth Social, the social media platform launched by Donald Trump in 2022, suffered a widespread outage on Thursday. And it's unfortunate timing for the former president. He was right in the middle of furiously tweeting (...

The U.S. embassy in Russia issued a warning on Thursday that Americans should avoid large gatherings in Moscow for the next 48 hours. The embassy said it was over a potential terrorist threat in the city, but didn't elab...

io9 is proud to present fiction from LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE. Once a month, we feature a story from LIGHTSPEED's current issue. This month's selection is "Let the Star Explode" by Shingai Njeri Kagunda. You can read the stor...

A 2.9-ton cargo pallet, once used for a critical battery upgrade mission on the International Space Station (ISS), is now approaching the end of its journey and is expected to reenter the Earth's atmosphere in the coming...

For more than 45 years, the Voyager 1 spacecraft has been cruising through the cosmos, crossing the boundary of our solar system to become the first human-made object to venture to interstellar space. Iconic in every reg...

Some apples are sweet, some not so much. Apple reversed its ban on Epic Games' developer account on Friday afternoon, according to an updated blog post, clearing a path again for an Epic Games Store on iOS devices in Eur...

The Cybertruck was such a misfire for Tesla that Elon Musk, close to tears, told investors "we dug our own grave" in the effort to launch the vehicle. But after years of delays, failed promises, and on-stage gaffs, the t...

With four damaged underwater cables in the Red Sea, telecommunication providers are now looking to the skies for connectivity. Satellite operators are lending their space-based connectivity to reroute internet traffic, s...

Microsoft appears to have blocked several prompts in its Copilot tool that led the generative AI tool to spit out violent, sexual and other illicit images. The changes seem to have been implemented just after an engineer...

The month is off to a running start when it comes to space, with a fresh crew launched to the International Space Station, some new astronomical insights, and the promise of a third SpaceX Starship test flight. Click thr...

Rivian's R2 reservations are off to a hot start. On Friday, CEO RJ Scaringe posted on X that the automaker had taken more than 68,000 reservations for the SUV in less than 24 hours. Amid alarmingly weakened demand for el...

Check out the Leica SL3 mirrorless camera. With its powerful sensor and processor duo, it meets the demands of professional photographers and videographers alike.   -60MP Full-Frame BSI CMOS Sensor and Maestro IV Image ...

120 Hz is good enough for consoles, but not for FreeSync.

Akira Toriyama is responsible for some of the most memorable and beloved character designs of multiple generations. From Goku and the cast of Dragon Ball, to Dragon Quest's legendary beasts like the Slime, and countless ...

Gemini Nano can't run on the smaller Pixel 8 due to mysterious "hardware limitations."

Chevrolet is resuming sales of the 2024 Chevy Blazer EV after pulling the car last year following reports of major software issues, as indicated by Car and Driver . The company says the malfunctions have been patched, th...

The total solar eclipse is coming, that much is a certainty, as is its well-defined path of totality across North America. What's considerably less clear, however, is how clear the skies will be on the big day, as varyin...

Apple has reversed course on its decision to ban Epic Games' developer account after it emerged European Union officials were looking into the issue. The about turn means that Epic will be able to bring its own app store...

Though Game of Thrones' David Benioff and D.B. Weiss know a thing or two about adapting much-loved novels for the screen, their new series, created with Alexander Woo, presented some fresh challenges. Netflix's 3 Body Pr...

In January 2014, a meteor entered Earth's atmosphere in the Western Pacific, as evidenced by apparent vibrational signatures of the event in a seismic station in Papua New Guinea. Last year, scientists declared rubble re...

It's day 8 of Gizmodo's March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time and one of the most controversial apps of our time has entered the ring. Venmo buried I Am Rich in yesterday's battle of the mo...