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You can do a lot through your phone now, things that you probably wouldn’t have imagined doing this way nearly a decade ago. Technology has significantly advanced since then and has grown smaller, we can easily fit the...

Curing some of the 330,000 babies born annually with HIV is no longer out of the question.

You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for t...

The past year has been a great one for new cars, but 2014 should be just s exciting. Here are 10 reasons why, including new models from Lamborghini and McLaren, and the long-awaited Tesla Model X. The post What do BMW, L...

Much as we admired the potential of the YotaPhone in our recent review, we just couldn't overlook its lack of support for popular e-reading platforms like Amazon Kindle and Google Books. That problem hasn't been solved j...

The Looxcie 3 is a "Lifestreaming" HD video camera that records, streams and shares the video feed all at the same time. If you plan on having the adventure of a lifetime, you don't want to miss out on all...

Rockstar, a consortium backed by Apple, Microsoft, Sony, and other tech giants, is planning to sell off most of its patent portfolio, according to Bloomberg. The group beat Google in a bidding war for these patents, whic...

An anonymous reader notes an article about how the tribulations of Healthcare.gov brought the idea of software testing into the public consciousness in a more detailed way than ever before. Quoting: "Suddenly, Americans ...

With these new Nauticam housings you could be an underwater explorer...or at least keep your camera dry. The post Nauticam Updates its NA-BMCC Underwater Camera Housings with a new NA-BMPCC for the Blackmagic Pocket Cine...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden said his "mission's already accomplished" after leaking NSA secrets that have caused a reassessment of U.S. surveillance policies Snowden told The Washing...

It's tough to get noticed on Twitter. There are roughly 9,100 tweets posted every second and your content can be lost in an instant as they pour in. However, Twitter has made a few changes that if used correctly, can mak...

China's now famous 'Yutu' moon rover has set sail for what promises to be breathtaking new adventures on Earth's nearest neighbor, after completing a final joint portrait session with the Chang'e-3 lander that safely dep...

This season, influenza activity started about four weeks early and was intense. Influenza-like illness rose quickly to well above the baseline of expected activity and remained elevated for 15 consecutive weeks, making t...

An anonymous reader writes "In a letter to RSA executives, F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen says he is canceling his talk at the 2014 RSA Conference, due to the company's deal with the NSA, and how the agency has treated foreig...

Microsoft’s multi-billion dollar acquisition of Nokia’s devices and services business has gotten almost all of the regulatory approvals it needs, but Nokia has no intention of letting the various unreleased Lumia pho...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's carbon-hunting observatory has emerged from its space simulation chamber following a series of environmental tests to prepare it for launch next summer.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been on the hunt for a more natural way to maneuver robots in space for some time now, resulting in cool experiments like using a Leap Motion to remotely control a Mars rover and usin...

BBC News: Erwin Perzy III knows a thing or two about making it snow - it's the family business. The 57-year-old Austrian is the grandson of the man widely acknowledged as the inventor of the snow globe. His grandfather, ...

The struggling smartphone maker drops plans for two phones, reportedly code-named Café and Kopi, before they have a chance to hit the market.

Gay computing pioneer killed himself in 1954 after 'gross indecency' conviction Alan Turing, the British mathematician whose work was instrumental in the creation of the calculating machines that helped the Allies break ...

We've all heard about the placebo effect but what about the nocebo effect? That's when you take something completely harmless but begin to think something harmful is happening to your body. This informative video by CGP ...

Freshly fallen snow is picturesque and beautiful. However, it never stays that way, because we have to trek out into it to carry on with our daily lives. As the days go by, we’ll occasionally have higher temperatures w...