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It's no coincidence that the best and most popular apps frequently have striking and memorable icons. It might seem like just a colorful tile, but a good icon is critical piece of an app's design that has a huge effect o...

That Boeing 787 Dreamliner that caught fire in London on Friday? Investigators are reportedly looking into the "emergency locator transmitter" as the possible source. This is important because it could mean the fire didn...

Tim Stevens, forever known as a bearded legend and a dignified gentleman in the realm of Engadget, once placed a small sum of money into a charity bet with Gene Munster. At question, as you'll likely surmise, was whether...

According to a report by former WSJ reporter Jessica Lessin, Apple's long-rumored stand-alone TV service will supposedly allow viewers to skip over commercials.

Last year IMDb updated its mobile application to bring folks HD-quality movie trailers to aid in their cinematic decision making. Today, iOS and Android users living in the US can act on those decisions with the addition...

You love Jay-Z, you say? Bad news: his appearance fee is bonkers. Good news: you can still have a private audience with Hova with these wall decals from design studio Pixers, which put him and several other famous musici...

TV advertisers imagine that one day soon you might see a product on screen -- say Don Draper's whiskey glass or Daenerys Targaryen's dress--and pause the program, click on the product and then instantly purchase it. Rela...

Few party-goers look forward to the math involved with paying for a shared cab ride home. Now that Uber supports fare splitting, they won't have to: the company's updated Android and iOS apps let passengers divide the co...

A bunch of geniuses from Harvard, MIT, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute are about to make your life a heck of a lot easier the next time you move into a new place. They've all been working together to develop flat-pac...

The Wall Street Journal pointed out today that while sales of point-and-shoot cameras have declined steadily over the past few years, DSLRs and other interchangeable-lens cameras have been doing great. That's right. Peop...

I still remember the comments on my welcome letter when I took over the site on a sunny day in early 2011. It was beautiful outside and here I was sweating bullets in a tiny NYC hotel room, watching the reaction in comme...

Growing replacement organs in a lab and transplanting them is science-fiction dream-turned-very-possible-reality, but so far it's been limited to simple tissues. Today, MIT researchers published findings on their success...

Drone photography: If you're not against it because of the Constitution, you're against it because of how over-hyped it is. But in the hands of enterprising architecture fans, unmanned airborne cameras are also letting u...

The White House isn't happy that many counterfeiters and pirates lean on internet advertising to support their sketchy ways. Accordingly, it just teamed up with Google, Microsoft and other ad providers to create a volunt...

Here's one of those things you'd always think was a joke but turned out to be real--the filmmakers behind Ashton Kutcher Steve Jobs movie have made an Instagram trailer.

At one point or another, who of us hasn't risked losing a finger by opening a pair of scissors and using them as a quick, impromptu knife? It turns out they're a pretty good way to open taped boxes without horribly slici...

Geeksphone's Firefox OS-based Keon and Peak phones have mostly catered to developers; the company is now widening that audience with an upgraded phone for the public, the Peak+. While Geeksphone isn't saying exactly what...

This is why we can't have nice things. Recently declassified video footage from Northern Afghanistan shows that piloting a drone isn't nearly as easy as it seems, even when it's still on the ground.

Have you heard about these newfangled X-ray machines? We should put 'em in everything! We should literally use them to X-ray people's feet to fit them for shoes. It sounds like a retro-parody cartoon, but it's not. It's ...

For platform providers it is important to not just understand your customers needs but also how they behave while on your platform. Most companies I come across know a fair bit about their customers but not much about ho...

While me and you and everyone we know weren't paying attention, BlackBerry invented a nice big shiny new phone, the A10. It's definitely different! And at this point, that might be just what BlackBerry needs.

Without Nintendo's Famicom there would be no NES. And without the NES, chances are, the video game industry as we know it would never have existed. It's hard to appreciate history while you're living it, but thirty years...