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Mug shots and airbrushing are both photography-related, but they aren't commonly found together in stories. Not so with some ongoing controversy over in Greece, though. The police there may soon be under investigation af...

The head of one of Earth's most valuable companies will be joining the First Lady at Tuesday's State of the Union address. But his star...

A stinging ant from Asia is spreading with a vengeance across the United States and may prove more devastating to people and the environment than the well-established aggressive Argentine ant currently is, according to n...

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DC Comics' Death of the Family has been one of the best-received Batman series in recent memory, not least because of Greg Capullo's fantastic art work. The Made By ABVH Tumblr has shared some expertly-animated GIFs base...

"I would like to thank the swap meet for his hat," Jay-Z jokingly said to rapper The Dream at the end of their acceptance speech for Best Rap Collaboration at the 55th Grammy Awards. Jay-Z's remark about The Dream's hat ...

The Grammys -- the place where music brings us all together, where we put aside our differences and raise our voices in song. Ha! More like the place where scantily clad musicians throw shade back and forth; dance like t...

The sharing economy is great, but if we're talking about true efficiency, it seems to me that we're going to need to go a step beyond just the owner-renter model for the collaborative consumption market, and into an area...

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Potholes are not a joke. They get in your way, damage your car and make you spill a Big Gulp's worth of Grape Fanta on your already-dingy upholstered seats. But new research shows that Google Street View may be all munic...

A new report from German researchers reveals the five main ways people are organizing the applications on their smartphones. Despite the somewhat esoteric focus of a study like this, the resulting analysis has a broader ...

Josh Tolan is the CEO of Spark Hire, a video-powered hiring network that connects job seekers and employers through video resumes and online interviews. Connect with him and Spark Hire on Facebook and Twitter. You've res...

IFC Midnight this week released a new trailer for Room 237 -- the forthcoming documentary about Stanley Kubrick's 1980 masterpiece, The Shining. Directed by Rodney Ascher, the movie was released to largely glowing review...

Or is Cupertino simply juicing the rumor mill? A weekend flurry of speculative articles stoked the Apple "iWatch" rumor mill, perhaps indicating that Cupertino is secreting some well-placed leaks to pump up interest in w...

Firefighters in Atlantic City took their oaths of office in unusual fashion last week when Apple's iPad was used in place of the traditional paper-bound Bible. NBC 40 reports that a short ceremony was scheduled to promot...

Nationwide retailer decides it's time to make the move to Apple, a decision which will affect 10,000 employees who will have to turn in their BlackBerry devices.

It seems harder and harder to keep to a regular schedule these days, but we won't have to think of an excuse this week as we're back to our regular recording time this week for the Engadget HD podcast. So if you agree th...

After this year's Super Bowl, there were a number of articles proclaiming that Twitter had "won" the event thanks to the general explosion in usage, as well as the prominent use of hashtags in many of the TV ads. But tod...

NBA star Kobe Bryant was fined $100,000 and widely slammed online after directing a gay slur at a referee in 2011. On Sunday evening, however, Bryant used Twitter to publicly display his apparently evolved views and chas...

Three days ago, The New York Times wrote a scathing critique of the Tesla Model S, testifying that the all-electric sedan couldn't handle cold weather -- dying before it reached its destination, even though a driver spen...

Apple CEO Tim Cook will get a prime seat during President Obama's State of the Union address Monday night. According to The Mercury News, Cook will be seated next to First Lady Michelle Obama in the First Lady's Box. Coo...

If you could ask Bill Gates anything, what would your question be?