2025 was the year Xbox died

Want to see a dead body? I present to you the Xbox. After a subdued launch at the height of the COVID pandemic in 2020, the Xbox Series X quickly lost the fight against the PlayStation 5. Microsoft ...

Scientists Found the Deepest Known Arctic Vent—and It’s Teeming With Life

Beneath cold, high-pressure oceans, water and gas molecules clump together into crystalline solids called gas hydrates. During a research cruise around the North Pole, scientists ...

Amazon, Apple, Best Buy and others

This late in the game, it’s not possible to ship gifts to friends and family and have them arrive before the holidays. But that’s ok because it’s never been easier to give a digital gift that will ...

MAINGEAR Introduces BYO RAM Builds to Address DDR5 Shortage and Price Hikes

MAINGEAR unveiled a new ordering option that addresses one of the more frustrating realities of the current PC market: unpredictable memory availability and pricing. The ...

Waymo Released a Revealing Postmortem on its San Francisco Blackout Meltdown

A postmortem from Waymo on Tuesday is offering at least some clarity about what the hell happened to its poor, benighted San Francisco operation after much of the power across the ...

New York Times reporter files lawsuit against AI companies

Investigative reporter John Carreyrou of the New York Times filed a lawsuit against xAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta and Perplexity on Monday for allegedly training their AI models on copyrighted ...

OnePlus Pad Go 2: Now Available In The U.S. And Canada With Some Great Deals

The OnePlus Pad Go 2, recently launched by OnePlus, is now officially available for purchase in both the United States and Canada starting today. Designed to offer a balanced ...

Everything Netflix Is Taking Credit for Thanks to the Success of ‘Stranger Things’

It’s been almost 10 years since Netflix dropped an original series that io9 took an interest in because of its overt riffs on Steven Spielberg and Stephen King. Initially, though, we ...

Why is the Nex Playground ‘AI console’ such a hit?

Over the past two years, the Nex Playground has carved out a niche for itself with kids and parents alike. It's a small box that sits in front of your TV and uses a camera, along with computer vision ...

Anime Movies Faced a Defining, Precarious Theatrical Crossroads in 2025

If the question of whether anime is mainstream was still on anyone’s lips, 2025 emphatically etched the medium in stone as an emphatic hell yes. Still, despite the banner year anime ...