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My colleague Mahira Kalim gives us an update on how SAP is running its business better running its own mobile software.

I was travelling this weekend and found myself connected to the incredibly blandly named "Home_Nework" Wi-Fi network. When I go home, it'll be scarcely better when I connect to yet another router with a boring out-of-the...

If a Mars colony is truly in our future, how will we fulfill one of the most basic human needs? More About: astronauts, features, health, Mars, Mars Colony, Mars One, Science, sex, space

Are you a fan of small things? UK-based photo enthusiast Greg Dash is trying to launch "the world's first digital Lomo-fisheye." It's a pint-sized digital toy camera that packs a 170-degree fisheye lens. The novelty gadg...

The Israeli Defense Forces has a history of overzealous campaigns on its official social media accounts. So maybe we shouldn't be surprised that an IDF sniper doesn't take his job very seriously. Or that's the impression...

Interested in Miracast-ing from an Andoid phone via your Netgear Push2TV PTV3000 adapter? Want to know what all that meant? It's understandable -- Miracast is a very recent open standard that lets you echo the display fr...

Strobist reader (and relative lighting newb) Ron Ibarra of New York City asks, via Twitter: "I can't control the flash through the PC cord. Am I doing something wrong?" Nope, Ron, you are not. A PC cord is what we call a...

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has beamed down responses to users of a popular social media website while circling Earth on the International Space Station.Hadfield used...

Two in a row, that's what we're at now in regards to keeping the regular Engadget HD podcast on schedule these days. So hopefully our regular time is your favorite time and you'll tune in live at 5:30PM and be be a part ...

Researchers have developed a prototype prosthetic hand that sends information two ways: from the brain to the hand and vice versa. The mind-controlled hand, which is connected by electrodes to two of the primary nerves i...

Samsung will announce its next flagship smartphone, believed to be called the Galaxy S IV, on March 14, multiple reports on the Web say.

We may still be a long way from putting a human colony on Mars, but that doesn't mean we can't live like spacemen here on Earth. These 18 trippy buildings--all built since 2000--look like they're from another world entir...

Opera's been making quite a few notable changes lately, and now we're finding out it won't be without any repercussions to some of its staff. Earlier today, Opera CEO Lars Boilsen's confirmed to our friends over at TechC...

Concert mosh pits are a niche phenomenon even among humans, but researchers at Cornell have found that their movement can be modeled using parameters based on the collision of gas particles. "These are collective behavio...

You may or may not know this, but Google Maps offers a Business Photos feature through which the search giant allows "Google trusted photographers" to provide street view tours of business establishments. That way, you c...

Nowadays, we use words like "twitter" all the time to talk about our everyday social meda-ing. In the 1800s, they said "twitter" too, but it meant something a little different. So did "pin." The times, they have a-change...

Microsoft is restricting which of its Office 2013 SKUs will include access to its PowerPivot data-analytics add-in, which is a key component of the company's business-intelligence platform.

Although hailed as an effective means for securing accounts from attack, OneID founder Steve Kirsch believes that two-factor authentication isn't the answer to the number of security breaches that organisations are facin...

Online dating websites are a multi-billion dollar business nowadays, and more and more single-and-looking people turn to the Interwebs to find their soul mates. Photographers Patrick Eggert and Sophie Ellis met through t...

Microsoft might be selling two versions of its Office suite, but its licensing policies suggest the company is not only trying to thwart software piracy, but also drive customers away from Office 2013 and over to the Off...

It's very easy to overspend on components when building a PC if you don't know which parts give you the best bang for the buck.

AFL for Optus, Voda customers as well Telstra has surprised "Aussie rules" football fans by announcing that its mobile app will be available to viewers on all carriers for the 2013 season....