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Peter Molyneux's Curiosity cube is now open, contents still a mystery (update: prize revealed!)
Engadget - 26 May 2013 17:41
After seven months of cooperative tapping, Peter Molyneux's Curiosity experiment is finally over: the cube is open. As Molyneux's studio, 22Cans, teased the game's last layer over Twitter, players descended upon it, chip...
Fujitsu revamps E-series Lifebooks, gives Ivy Bridge one last hurrah
Engadget - 26 May 2013 12:10
Intel's Haswell-based processors may be just around the corner, but the suit-and-tie crowd can't always wait to buy new PCs, can it? Fujitsu has those impatient corporate buyers covered with a refresh to its E-series Lif...
Surprising No One, Twitter Is An Arrested Development Explosion
Gizmodo - 26 May 2013 23:10
The Netflix-only fourth season of Arrested Development went live at 3 a.m. EST this morning, and if you didn't see the Twitter deluge coming, well, you're one of these people:
Ghostly Ship Graveyards from Around the World
Gizmodo - 26 May 2013 23:00
Where do boats go when they die? Sometimes they end up in vast ship graveyards, sometimes craggy, foggy places where ships have met their doom, and sometimes spots where ships are deliberately left to rust. There's a qui...
Listen To Music Through Your Cheekbones While You Swim Laps
Gizmodo - 26 May 2013 21:52
It's hard to listen to music while you're swimming because even waterproof earbuds that actually stay on try to conduct sound through air to reach your eardrums, and there's not a lot of air underwater. The FINIS Neptune...
Inhabitat's Week in Green: biospheres, X-wings and energy-creating shoes
Engadget - 26 May 2013 21:25
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. News that Amazon will add three large biospheres to its downtown Seattle headq...
Hybrid Fruits Sound Delicious And Sort Of Exist A Little Bit
Gizmodo - 26 May 2013 20:31
I would do basically anything to try a bananaberry, kiwigerine or pinegrape. No matter how varied and colorful nature is, I will always want more delicious fruit options. And Ogilvy Brazil knows. They sense my weakness.
What Gadgets Do You Use For Grilling?
Gizmodo - 26 May 2013 19:10
Memorial Day is the first major patriotic holiday of the summer that demands grilling. You may use it as rare motivation to down some dogs and crack open a watermelon. You may interpret it as a directive to commence infi...
Steve Wozniak discusses his dependency on a MacBook Pro and his affinity for transistor radios
Engadget - 26 May 2013 19:00
Every week, a new and interesting human being tackles our decidedly geeky take on the Proustian Q&A. This is the Engadget Questionnaire. Steve Wozniak pioneered the personal computing industry with the Apple I and II. In...
Samsung ATIV Book 7 review: a high-end Ultrabook arriving just before Haswell
Engadget - 26 May 2013 18:00
If you've been waiting for Samsung to refresh last year's Series 9 Ultrabook, don't hold your breath; apart from a recent upgrade to 1080p resolution, it's basically stayed the same. That doesn't mean Samsung is taking a...
Finally, A Wrinkle Reducer That Is Also The Embodiment Of Evil
Gizmodo - 26 May 2013 17:11
Our superficial, beauty-obsessed culture is pretty scary. People starve themselves or have serious surgeries so they can look a certain way. But for better or worse (definitely worse) we're all pretty used to hearing abo...
Receiving A Gold Plated iPad At Hotel Check-In Is Normal, Right?
Gizmodo - 26 May 2013 16:21
You know the drill. You pull up to a Super 8 Motel with the vacancy light on, you argue with the attendent about getting a room away from the ice machine, you whip out your AAA card for extra savings and then you take th...
Microsoft gives students 3GB additional Skydrive storage for one year
Engadget - 26 May 2013 16:00
There are plenty of cloud storage options out there which offer some initial amount of free space -- including Dropbox (2GB), Google Drive (5GB), Box (5GB) and Microsoft Skydrive (7GB). While these services usually provi...
Watch the Curiosity rover explore Mars in one minute (video)
Engadget - 26 May 2013 14:21
It hasn't even been a year from the time NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars, yet it already boasts a number of accomplishments. All the while, Opportunity's successor has been sending images back to Earth documenting ...
Evernote Windows Phone app now lets you pin tool tiles, gets other UI tweaks
Engadget - 26 May 2013 10:24
It wasn't too long ago that we saw the Evernote app get a pretty major refresh on Windows Phone, but today the note-taking service is back with some underlying improvements and a couple of new features. The main highligh...
Arrested Development season four is ready for viewing on Netflix
Engadget - 26 May 2013 09:01
Arrested Development is finally back. After Fox cancelled the show in 2006 its popularity has unexpectedly grown, and now a new season commissioned by Netflix for its streaming service is ready for viewing. As is its cus...
Scientists find that graphene can be used to build lasers
Engadget - 26 May 2013 08:13
You already know that graphene can be used to make transistors, solar cells and even Sennheiser-quality cans. But if you think that's about as cool as the carbon material can get, listen to this: It can also be used to m...
NASA creates the first topographic map of Titan, Saturn's largest moon
Engadget - 26 May 2013 06:48
Scientists observing Saturn's moon Titan with NASA's Cassini spacecraft have boldly gone where no man has gone before -- visually, anyway. Using radar imagery collected from nine years of Cassini flybys, researchers were...
Ask Engadget: best candybar phone?
Engadget - 26 May 2013 05:00
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 Icaro, who is off to Brazil and needs a phone while there. ...
Lenovo hopes to sell smartphones in the US within a year
Engadget - 26 May 2013 03:57
While Lenovo is one of the fastest-rising smartphone makers today, many Americans wouldn't know it when the company has never officially sold handsets in the country. They might soon be well acquainted, according to CEO ...
All the Stuff That Will Happen on the Internet in the Next 60 Seconds
Gizmodo - 26 May 2013 03:00
The Internet is always hoppin'. Maybe parts of it will be slowing down just a little as everyone and their hermano tunes in to watch season four of Arrested Development, but it'll still be humming along.
Mobile Miscellany: week of May 20th, 2013
Engadget - 26 May 2013 02:35
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 brought hints of a revitalized Galaxy Exhibit for T-Mobile, news of two additions to...