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You can move your account's home directory to a new location on your hard drive, or to a different drive altogether.

Bowers and Wilkins has been making excellent on-ear headphones for a while now, but with the P7s it's offering up its first-ever over-ear cans--for a price.

Is your cable television on the fritz? One explanation, scientists suspect, may be the weather -- the weather in space, that is. MIT researchers are investigating the effects of space weather -- such as solar flares, geo...

This gorgeous experimental film by director Joey Bania explores the unique and dazzlingly creative world of Blair Somerville, resident inventor, tinkerer, and self-described "organic mechanic" of Popotowai, New Zealand. ...

When most Manhattan real estate developers buy up land to build a new tower, they unceremoniously raze any existing structures. But Michael Shvo, a developer and art collector who recently bought a lot near the High Line...

During today's Q3 earnings report, Adobe announced that its Creative Cloud software service had passed one million subscribers since launching in June. In addition to reaching that milestone much faster than expected, th...

If a lightsaber can turn a drunken bar brawl into what appears to be an elegant duel, imagine what it could do for the thumb wrestling matches you have with your roommates to decide on pizza toppings. But you don't have ...

Putting satellites into orbit is no easy task, especially with the demise of the Space Shuttle program. Which is why DARPA's going to make itself a spacejet.

iOS 7--Apple's revamped mobile operating system--will be available for all consumers tomorrow. It will be a shock for every John and Jane out there. Will they hate it or love it?

It's Tuesday, the new regular day for the Engadget HD Podcast. We hope you'll appreciate us clearing up Monday for football and join us live when the Engadget HD podcast starts recording at 5:15PM. If you'll be joining u...

September is Suicide Prevention Month, and Facebook is sharing a new infographic and a site-wide public service announcement to help users find the resources they need when a friend makes troubling posts on the social ne...

Last week's announcement that the new iPhone 5 will include a fancy new fingerprint scanning security system was met with a chorus of protests. What if someone lifts my prints and makes a fake finger and unlocks my phone...

Evernote's had a presence on BlackBerry 10 since the early days of the OS, but today the cloud-based service is taking things a bit further. As of now, BB10 users can download a native version of Evernote, which offers a...

The UK government, O2, Vodafone and EE will test two mobile emergency alert systems that target messages to specific locations.

If last week's announcement got you all worked up about a new Apple handset, you may have to wait a little while longer. AllThingsD reports that sources from multiple US carriers are showing "grotesquely" low inventory l...

If you like music, you must have good headphones. It's that simple. To do otherwise would be to cheat yourself out of one of life's great pleasures. Why would you want to do that?

Careless practices by the State of Maryland have exposed the data on thousands of background check forms to even the most casual hacker.

Less than a year after the ambitious Windows 8 hit the scene, the updated version 8.1 is officially headed for consumers on October 18th starting at $120.

If you already have Windows 8 installed on your PC, Windows 8.1 will be a free upgrade in the Windows Store. (But if you own a Windows 8 PC, you probably already knew that.) Now, Microsoft has revealed pricing for people...

Tomorrow, millions of current iPhone and iPad owners will be prompted to update iOS with a tap. Friday, millions more new iPhone buyers will start receiving their already updated rainbow pastel plastic iPhones in the mai...

America's first completely bookless public library opened in San Antonio this past weekend. That is, if you define a "book" as words printed on paper pages which are bound together with glue. But if you define "book" a b...

Continuing the trend of ultra-cheap accessories for your portable devices, here's a foldable tablet stand for under $7. The stand supports both landscape and portrait modes, fits in your pocket, and holds most tablets an...