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This Is the Dumbest and Most Awesome Way to Light a Bonfire By Eric Limer I don’t know who thought this was a good idea, but they were sort of right, in an extremely dangerous way. These clowns decided that may...

Maybe We Wouldn’t Pirate Music If There Were Anywhere Else to Hear It By Brian Barrett It may not be totally fair to blame piracy’s ascension on MTV’s decline. But you know what? Neither was sending ...

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. It's difficult to remember as jam-packed a week in terms of industry announcements from major OS providers as the recent seven-day stretch...

Copyright-Infringing Tweets Will Now Be “Withdrawn” Instead of “Disappeared Forever” By Brian Barrett Twitter received 4,410 DMCA takedown notices last year alone. But while previously a successfu...

Sure, you can always play catch with the dog, but what kind of game can you play with a caged rodent? Well, "find the poster," apparently. A team of researchers from Universities in Spain, Germany, Austria, England and t...

Here’s the Mother Lode of Windows 8 Nerdery By Brian Barrett Sure, you watched the Microsoft Build conference keynote last week. Why not? It had a comprehensive Windows 8 overview, Ballmer being Ballmer, some jaun...

Hackers Take Down NBC Video Page For Some Reason By Brian Barrett Those in search of SNL and 30 Rock clips over at NBC’s videos page have been met with something quite different: a hacked page of weirdness with a ...

The Onion’s TED Talk Parodies Keep Getting Better (And More Scathing) By Brian Barrett We haven’t checked in on The Onion’s brutal TED Talk parody series, but now’s as good a time as any to ge...

Sandy-Soaked New Jerseyans Will Be Able to Vote by Email By Brian Barrett Rather than let a hurricane disenfranchise thousands of displaced New Jersey residents, Governor Chris Christie has given a green-light for voting...

South Ferry Station: Before and After By Jesús Díaz The MTA reports that “the South Ferry station, which had been a large fish tank, has now been pumped dry.” Click here to see the complete story of San...

Yep, Your Political Tweets and Facebook Posts Are at Least This Bad By Brian Barrett The first argument you hear against posting political views on social media is that you’ll only end up alienating your [OTHER PA...

The iPad Mini Costs $141 More Than Its Components Add Up To By Brian Barrett According to a teardown by IHS, renowned estimator of how much companies actually pay for components, Apple’s iPad Mini carries a $188 c...

Ever since 2000, game consoles have effectively (if not very assertively) been banned in China. There's already been signs of a warming attitude with official plans for the Nintendo 3DS XL coming this December, but Sony ...

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green. Hurricane Sandy dominated the news cycle this week as the storm surge flooded ...

Evernote? More like ever tease. Just this week it was tempting badly organized Mac owners with a beta release of Evernote 5, now the team is back to dangle its 5th version for iOS in front of our noses. The theme here is...

Last time we saw a MAG gun controller, it was being splayed all over the FCC. But, that was some time ago; gamers with a gun habit will be twitching those trigger fingers for something new. One option? How about the MAG ...

Not every developer had the luxury of putting a flight to Redmond on the corporate tab so that they could attend Microsoft's Build 2012 conference in person. Much to their delight, they won't have to. The company has pos...

The merger of China's video giants Youku and Tudou this August must have struck a nerve over at Baidu: the search engine just bought out equity firm Providence's controlling stake in iQiyi, an already large video service...

Most Of What You Know About Hurricane Sandy Comes From A Man Who Doesn’t Believe In Global Warming By Ashley Feinberg If it’s not already, the Wikipedia page on Hurricane Sandy will become the most widely v...

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 Wes, who needs to ensure that Delta Tau Chi don't start int...

Don’t Forget To Set Back That One Non-Internet Clock You Inevitably Still Have Hanging Around By Eric Limer Tonight’s the night we do that Daylight Savings Time thing again, so here’s a reminder to f...

If you didn't get enough mobile news during the week, not to worry, because we've opened the firehose for the truly hardcore. This past week, Cricket added a compact smartphone to its lineup, new press images landed for ...