When Palm came back from the dead last year with what I have dubbed as the "baby phone," even though that cute little device was far from perfect, I couldn't help but appreciate Palm's attempt at making something that allowed people to stay connected but didn't constantly beg for your attention. However, the Palm did...
Avengers: Endgame is the rare kind of film whose three-hour, intermission-less runtime is a price audiences are willing to pay without batting an eye because, as Marvel Studios keeps reminding everyone, this is the end of an era. A narrative climax of Endgame's proportions rightfully deserves to take its time. But...
A new article from the New York Times Magazine details the decade-long history of ASMR, or Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, tracing the trajectory from a small Facebook group of dedicated tinglers to a massive pop culture phenomenon. In the latter half of the piece, writer Jamie Lauren Keiles goes shopping with ...
In order for Alexa to answer sensitive healthcare questions, it needs to be compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). And, as of Thursday, Amazon says its voice assistant is offering services that are. In a blog post today, the company announced that a number of new health skills...
The Event Horizon Telescope, a network of telescopes on mission to observe supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies, is set to release its first results in a public press conference next week.
When corporations become monolithic, they tend to stalk familiar, doomed territory. The planned communities of the world's Disneys and Fords are largely out of vogue now, but for tech giants, the white whale is always skywards, in the form of a grandiose universal internet initiative. It's only surprising that Amazon,...
Look, having someone's secret plans revealed via slideshow isn't the most-thrilling villain exposé known to man, god, or librarian. But that's what we have Matt Frewer (aka Max Headroom, aka Dr. Aldous Leekie) for. He could sell us anything--even a millennia-old conspiracy only suited for something like The Magicians....
When it comes to Aladdin songs, "Friend Like Me" is the showstopper. Sure "A Whole New World" is beautiful and "Prince Ali" is catchy, but it's that big, intro song sung by the genie that sticks in your head the most. So when the lights went down at CinemaCon 2019 and "Friend Like Me" from Guy Ritchie's upcoming ...
Last night at a Republican fundraiser in DC, Donald Trump claimed that wind turbines cause cancer with the citation, "They say the noise causes cancer." This may be because the president has a grudge against wind power because he thought it would spoil the view from one of his golf courses in Scotland or it might just...
With just weeks to go before its release, we're at peak Avengers: Endgame anticipation these days. CinemaCon 2019 audiences just got a glimpse of the most massive Marvel Cinematic Universe film to date, and io9 is there to report what we saw.
The economic juggernaut we call the internet has thrived principally thanks to a single U.S. law passed more than two decades ago--Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. It states quite simply that website operators shall not be treated as the publishers of information posted by their users. To wit, Gizmodo...
A new study out Wednesday in the BMJ is the latest to showcase even the short-term benefits of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. It found that the routine vaccination of preteen girls in Scotland, starting in 2008, led to drastically lower rates of cervical disease by the time the girls turned 20. That included...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced that it is investigating a potential link between seizures and vaping after receiving dozens of voluntary reports over a nearly 10-year period.
Researchers at the cybersecurity firm UpGuard on Wednesday said they had discovered the existence of two datasets together containing the personal data of hundreds of millions of Facebook users. Both were left publicly accessible.
A 25-year-old middle school teacher in Long Island was fired after a topless selfie she took was nonconsensually obtained by a student at her school. The teacher, Lauren Miranda, is now in the process of suing the school district for gender discrimination.