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Sure, it's easy to whip yourself up a old-school backyard fire-pit with a ring of rocks and whole lot of ugly. But wouldn't you rather have a portable, modular fireplace that looks ready to blast off to the stars? Who wo...

We've all been quietly--or loudly--hoping that our town would be the next to get Google's speedy fiber. In the wee hours of the morning, Google announced the next lucky metropolis. And then immediately took it back. More

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 Chris, who wants to find a low-cost way of getting his wife...

Jurassic Park was awesome. Jurassic Park in 3D is awesome layered on awesome. And the tech behind the scenes? You can probably see where this is going. More

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 week, Samsung introduced a new crop of smartphones for China and India, the Lumia 520 hit...

There have been rumors about NASA's next major project ever since Senator Bill Nelson of Florida mentioned some jazz about wrangling an asteroid. Now a White House official has confirmed the plans to NBC, explaining the ...

Sure, Facebook had a weird ad with Blink-182 for the HTC Status, but its sneak peek at its newest TV spot for the First and Home is on another level. Posted today on its Facebook profile, the campy piece literally brings...

Rough week? We've got everything yuo need to unwind. How about a very NSFW YouTube music video, a list of weird celebrities who are getting Google Glass, some Microsoft nostalgia, Mark Zuckerberg's secret AngelFire shame...

Fancied PlayJams' GameStick Android gaming console enough to back it on Kickstarter earlier this year? The good news is that Dev units have been shipping to the roughly 600 who signed up, with the remaining ones set to h...

Alt-week peels back the covers on some of the more curious sci-tech stories from the last seven days. Evolution, devolution, review-lution. Okay, so we made that last one up. But if they ever do invent a machine that can...

The digital music revolution continues at a frenetic pace -- we'd only just turned in our CDs for MP3s when streaming services came along to upturn the apple cart again. There are now a whole host of streaming apps to ch...

We might not cover sports all that much on Gizmodo but when we do, we go with the best. This weekend sees the return of MotoGP, the premiere class of motorcycle racing--think of it as the two-wheeled equivalent of F1. Th...

From the latest harbinger of the robopocalypse from Boston Dynamics to more friendly looking machines like Romo, Engadget has a longstanding love affair with all forms of robots. Syfy channel's newest show, Robot Combat ...

Taking a play-before-you-pay approach, for a limited time, US Cellular is giving prospective customers the option to try its network without committing to a service agreement. This offer is available in select markets, i...

Premiere Pro has already been tearing through video with OpenCL on Macs for a year, and now AMD and Adobe have teamed up to bring support for the open standard to Windows with the software's next version. Not only does t...

Unlike other shows who sneakily add special effects without you realizing, The Walking Dead is so overtly gruesome and bloody and gore-y that we're completely aware that what we see is being spiced up with visual effects...

Let's face it, for some gamers going to a party is harder than playing a video game. And for partiers, playing video games is harder than partying. So what if we combined the two worlds and made a video game just for par...

We've heard about the thinner, lighter and better variant of the Nokia Lumia 920 that Verizon is expected to get and now we get a look of what it'll look like. Probably. The reliable leak happy @evleaks Twitter account h...

A young girl's flights of fancy take a turn for the frightful in her pursuit of a mysterious glowing butterfly. Between the mythical dangers and deadly adversaries, it'll be a small miracle if she can make it out of thes...

Now that Chromium has pledged its allegiance to Google's new Blink rendering engine, Webkit is set to have the now-unnecessary Chrome-specific code stripped from it. Apple Webkit developer Geoffrey Garen kicked off a con...

This short film, "Hoverboard", is about a girl and her teddy bear trying to create a hoverboard after watching Back to the Future II. I can totally relate to her because I was trying to make my own hoverboard really hove...

In one of the most iconic scenes from American Psycho, murderous young turk Patrick Bateman waxes psychotic about Huey Lewis and the News. It's funny, it's weird, it's unsettling. But watching Huey Lewis and Weird Al Yan...