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So The Artist was a big deal during the awards season of 2011, but I'm willing to bet a lot of you didn't go out to see it. I know I wasn't particularly stoked about paying up to go see a silent movie in theaters, but so...

Unless you've been living under a rock, you know there's an epically huge storm about to crash against the East Coast. If you have been living under a rock, you might be about to drown under it. More »

There's a storm a-brewing, and as always, that makes for a great photo-op. Whether it's the barren store shelves, lines of people waiting patiently to get inside a store full of barren shelves, or a shot of the forebodin...

Mirrors can be for so much more than just gawking at your slack-jawed mug first thing in the morning. They can, for example, be used to give the illusion that towering designs made of light reach out past you, to an inde...

Thanks to Hurricane Sandy, Google's Android event in NYC got canceled, the one where we were ever-so-probably sure there was going to be an announcement of the Nexus 10 tablet. Well, we have the next best thing, kind of....

This week saw the debut of two ARM-powered tablets by old rivals. One eschews traditional desktop input methods; the other embraces them. One occupies the high end of pricing in its class; the other is competitive with t...

Nikon has announced the winners of their classic photomicrography competition. All the entries are spectacular, but these are the very best, the top ten. More »

As if the prospect of being watched by security cameras wasn't unsettling enough, they may not only be watching you. Computerized surveillance software currently under development will also let them predict what you're a...

If you had any doubts about the scale of frankenstorm Sandy, check out NASA's latest image to see its size compared to the entire planet. It was taken by NOAA's GOES-13 satellite this morning, October 28 at 9:02AM EDT. M...

Forget about the Montauk monster. This extraordinary photo—taken by Dorit Hockman, from the University of Cambridge's More »

Commercialization of carbon nanotubes is one of the holy grails of next-gen computing, and IBM thinks it's made crucial steps toward making this a reality. This isn't the first time that we've heard such a claim, of cour...

During the past couple of centuries, it hasn't been uncommon to design a clock or watch in a way that reminds you of your own morality, "memento mori." This silver skull watch from the late 18th century is a particularly...

If you like the idea of the Boxee TV, you'll be glad to hear that Boxee is handing units out like so much Halloween candy... as long as you live in the right areas, that is. Those who've signed up for product notificatio...

We like to tell ourselves that learning by doing is the best strategy for improving our skills, but we seldom apply that philosophy to our robots; with certain exceptions, they're just supposed to know what to do from th...

Advances in unmanned military tools and vehicles have come on leaps and bounds, but, until now, we haven't seen a weapon firing drone operating in the seas. A recent test taking part offshore near Maryland saw several mi...

Nintendo is notorious for releasing awesome limited edition hardware abroad, but here in the US of A, we tend to get the short end of the joystick. Case in point, the house that Mario Miyamoto built is releasing a Chariz...

The Verizon-flavoured Nokia Lumia 822 hasn't exactly been camera-shy, nor has it been coy about its imminent arrival, but the details on price and availability have, as yet, not been pinned down. That is until now, accor...

We know you've got questions, and if you're brave enough to ask the world for answers, then here's the outlet to do so. This week's Ask Engadget inquiry is from Benjamin, who feels a little let down by the most recent ch...

Oh, Carphone Warehouse -- it just can't seem to keep what it knows about the LG / Google Nexus 4 under lock and key. Just days after briefly listing the phone on its website, purported in-store displays for the yet unann...

Experiemental and math rock can be a little tough to get into. The rhymthms are impressively complex and intricate, but a lot of times you just can't groove to them. Enter "Atlas" by Battles. It's groovetastic. More �...

If you didn't get enough in mobile news during the week, not to worry, because we've opened the firehose for the truly hardcore. This past week, T-Mobile announced the price and release date for the Optimus L9, carriers ...

Halloween presents a wonderful excuse for a lot of things, one of the best probably being the simulation of murder and suicide for the purpose of terrifying innocent children. It's a bit difficult to pull it off live, bu...