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ESA Top News: Standard space dockings are difficult enough, but a future ESA mission plans to capture derelict satellites adrift in orbit. Part of an effort to control space debris, the shopping list of new technologies ...

Standard space dockings are difficult enough, but a future ESA mission plans to capture derelict satellites adrift in orbit. Part of an effort to control space debris, the shopping list of new technologies this ambitious...

Tesla has delayed its all-electric Model X sedan until 2015, the company's CEO Elon Musk told Bloomberg on Wednesday, citing his "perfectionist" nature for the reason it's not ready for market. This marks the second time...

It may sound like a sales pitch by a used car dealership, but the way Reviveaphone brings your dead-as-a-doorknob water-damaged phone back to life is miraculous. Reviving a phone after you dunk it into the bathtub or sin...

Olympus has filed patents for two super-fast wide-angle Micro Four Thirds lenses.     

We wanted a wallet that was convenient to use, looked great, and was thin at the same time. Money clips are one solution to keeping it thin, but we found it very inconvenient folding your bills to put them away....

Google has unveiled a new phone that makes real-time, 3-D maps of its environments. Its “customized hardware and software” includes sensors that gives it the capability to make over a quarter of a million measurement...

The ClamCase Pro for iPad mini is a keyboard case that looks like it was designed by Apple (an iPad mini inside of a ClamCase Pro might as well be the netbook Apple never made). It's made out of aluminum, has a full Blue...

When women enter menopause, their estrogen levels taper. This increases their risk of cardiovascular disease. New research shows that interval-based team sport can make up for this estrogen loss as it improves their cond...

The HTC One (M8) will feature two cameras on the rear of the device, Pocket-lint can confirm. Talking to sources familiar with the matter, Pocket-lint has learnt that the new flagship smartphone from HTC, due to be annou...

It may have been the top patent-filing nation last year with over 825,000 patent applications, but China is still lacking innovation and should focus on helping inventors commercialize their patents.

Wireless chargers using the Qi (pronounced "chee") inductive power standard are beginning to pick up steam, although none of Apple's products at this time support the standard. The idea is simple: instead of plugging in ...

Maybe changing the perspective on the original Legend of Zelda is a little weird--everything looks so different here--but that's exactly what makes this Oculus Rift version of the game interesting. Its almost like you're...

Just a month ago, WhatsApp founder Jan Koum appeared to be dead-set against selling his company. In an interview with Wired UK editor David Rowan, Koum pointed out that the best companies — including Facebook — have ...

Bitcoin fell below US$100 on major exchange Mt. Gox early Friday, dropping under a key psychological threshold. Traders pushed the digital currency as low as $91.50, far below its price at around $537 on two other exchan...

(Springer) Physics can provide insights into societal trends. Problems involving interactions between people linked in real-life networks can be better understood by using physical models. Gomberoff set out to resolve on...

WhatsApp users should ditch the instant messaging service else face privacy issues and potentially seeing new owner Facebook monetize them in intrusive ways, Germany's data protection commissioner has warned, with …

This is the Tolbachik volcano, laying down roads of magma over the Peninsula of Kamchatka for condemned Russians to drive on their way to hell in cars equipped with dashcams. At least, that's what it looks like in Lusika...

If our articles have been tagged properly, the first mention of Oppo on Engadget dates back to August 2005. No one would have thought that this then-fledgling DVD player manufacturer -- a spin-off from Vivo's parent comp...

New photos of the Martian landscape further rule out a meteorite impact as the culprit behind the "jelly doughnut" rock that mysteriously appeared in front of one of NASA's Mars rovers last month. NASA's Mars Reconnaissa...

He might have favored email over physical post, but a document obtained by The Washington Post suggests that Steve Jobs' face is set to appear on a US Postal Service stamp in 2015.

We're sure many of us use our phones to play music, and for the most part it sounds alright. Of course it matters what kind of earphones and headphones you use, along with the type of file (whether it's just MP3 or a los...