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There's no denying that the Xenomorph queen is terrifying in Aliens , but she doesn't seem quite has bad when her lifeless head is just sitting on a table, still being sculpted out of its earliest form. Still no looker, ...

Regardless of what you think of its icons , iOS 7 is a big design shift for Apple, and it's here to stay. When the new OS finally hits consumer phones everywhere, it might be a little surprise for some, but there's one d...

There's something to be said for dropping the cameras and just watching fireworks, but for Redditor AJ192, watching the pyrotechnic show through a viewfinder really paid off. Taken at an explosive celebration in New Mexi...

We've been watching as the SpaceX Grasshopper's leap has grown higher and higher with each successive launch (and landing!), and the rocket's flights never fail to impress. The reusable spacecraft's latest test is no exc...

With Google Reader finally dead and gone , it seems like as good a time as any to rethink the way we all look at the web. There's a whole wealth of browsers and widgets and apps and extensions out there that will try to ...

Happy Independence week. There were a lot of explosions, but some other things managed to happen too, and we've rounded up a festive smattering of them. Consider it GizBQ sampling plate. I'm talkin' about an exploding-bu...

There are plenty of things that can make a ghost town, from dam projects , to nuclear disaster . The folks over at BuzzFeedVideo put together a rundown of some of America's finest--and most unsettling--from a town built ...

Several days ago we received a Samsung Galaxy S 4 Google Play edition to play with and shared our first impressions. This week we take a closer look at what's different between this handset and its TouchWiz-equipped cous...

You're never going to use the borked trial versions of all these programs that came preinstalled on your new laptop or smartphone, so why should they continue taking up precious hard drive space? Here's how to cut the de...

It should come as no surprise that the RIAA, of all organizations, plays particularly fast and loose with its DMCA takedown requests . But thanks to a ridiculous blitz, the RIAA just had its 25 millionth link removed fro...

Some things just look too good to be true, and this extremely polished hands-on -- purporting to be the rumored, as yet unconfirmed budget iPhone -- is possibly one of them. However, this comes via sources associated wit...

Mornin'! Welcome to Saturday! Before you put that piping hot cup of coffee to your lips, why not try some piping hot coffee for your ears? It's not as bad as it sounds. Who doesn't like a little aural pleasure?

People can't be bothered to watch in 3D, even when they have the hardware.

Closing out a week full of Motorola leaks, @evleaks has posted this image of a device claimed to be the Droid Maxx, due on Verizon later this year and flashing a Kevlar frame with capacitive buttons. Earlier tweets and a...

In a world where seemingly every physiological foible is being reclassified as a disease or an addiction (looking at you, husky sex addicts) it was really only a matter of time until the biological mechanism behind assho...

Google has alohomora'd a way for everyone (even muggles) to visit Diagon Alley without the need for magic wands. You can now explore the famous Harry Potter set at Warner Bros. London studio via Street View, and virtuall...

Bert Haanstra's Glas is a short 10-minute documentary from 1958 about glass that won an Oscar. It's a beautiful short that shows the art of glass blowing versus the character-less mechanism of automated glass bottle maki...

We've all said it or thought it or joked about it or believed it at one point in our lives. That damn, we were in the middle of nowhere. But that corn field or dark stretch of the highway hardly qualifies as nowhere. Tru...

This is fantastic. Distort measured people's reaction time by making them catch a falling ruler to see how quickly (or slowly) their brains can translate what they see into what they do. Putting the video to slow motion ...

Now that PRISM leaker Edward Snowden has spent a few days in Russia with a US extradition request looming over him, WikiLeaks legal advisor Sarah Harrison has submitted asylum applications and requests for asylum assista...

Any advanced Internetter knows that the best way to enjoy the pure Internet is to get an ad blocker. It zaps away all the excess and gives you the meaty good stuff. However, it looks like companies are figuring ways to c...

You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for t...