Motorola's foldable Razr delayed due to high demand

We hope you weren’t too excited about pre-ordering the revamped, foldable Motorola Razr on December 26th. The company announced today that it’s slightly delaying the phone’s pre-order and launch timing due to significant consumer demand. We don’t kno…

What is NEON? Samsung STAR labs tease mystery for 2020

The group called STAR Labs (Samsung Technology & Advanced Research Labs) teased a product called NEON this week. They’ve suggested that they’ll be revealing the details on this mysterious product at CES 2020 – that’s just a few short weeks away. We’ve gleaned just a little bit of information on what NEON could be based on the connections in the … Continue reading

Smelly, toxic gas on other planets may be perfect proof of alien life

What do fish bowels, swamps, and mounds of penguin dung all have in common? A noxious gas that may be the best evidence for extraterrestrial life. That’s according to researchers with MIT, which reports that smelly and flammable phosphine gas is produced by a type of life form that doesn’t require oxygen to live. These organisms, it turns out, are … Continue reading

This is Hyundai’s vision of city travel: Flying cars and self-driving pods

Hyundai plans to bring a flying car to CES 2020, previewing its vision of not only air taxi transportation, but how passengers will move between the ground and the skies. The Hyundai Personal Air Vehicle (PAV) will just be a concept, the South Korean automaker says, but it argues that there are legitimate benefits from spreading the commute upwards. The … Continue reading

io9's Rise of Skywalker Roundtable: Trying Not to Murder Each Other Over Star Wars

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'Anonymized' Location Data Leak Allows Reporters to Quickly Track Trump's Secret Service Detail

New York Times reporters working on an investigation into the sprawling location data business—in which the paper obtained a three-year-old file containing 50 billion location pings for over 12 million Americans—were able to track the movements of a member of Donald Trump’s Secret Service security detail. And thus,…

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This Funky, ‘Non-Aggressive’ Chicken Was Found Wandering The Streets Of Brooklyn

The rooster will apparently be relocating to Vermont so consider this its “Why I’m Leaving New York” essay.

How to prepare a high-tech holiday feast

I’m pretty handy around the kitchen if I do say so myself. You need something seared, roasted, grilled, braised, boiled, bronzed or blanched, I’m your guy. But through most of the year my culinary aptitude is geared towards cooking for one, maybe two…

GoPro's first Hero 8 Black 'mod' is a light for vloggers

When GoPro unveiled the Hero 8 Black, the company also teased some “mod” accessories for the camera. GoPro has dabbled with this idea before — you may remember the “backpack” mods of yore which added either an LCD display (before they were standard)…

France fines Google $167 million over unpredictable advertising rules

After a four-year investigation, France’s competition watchdog is fining Google €150 million ($167 million) for opaque and unpredictable advertising rules, Reuters reports. The investigation began after French company Gibmedia accused Google of…