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Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days. Two years on, the Fukushima nuclear meltdown is still causing problems, and the Japanese government is looking at a particu...

By the time you're ready for a new phone, it can feel like the whole world has changed. But still, there's bound to be just one feature you lust for, one beautiful glowing feature that's just out of reach on your current...

If you like guns, not being shot, and sitting, there's a new product on the market that is right up your extremely narrow alley. Meet Couchbunker: the ~$7,000 bulletproof sofa that's also a toy box for your guns.

It's easy to forget that owning something digitally is way different from owning it for real. And if you do forget, it can bite you in the ass. That's what happened to Jim O'Donnell when he traveled into Singapore and fo...

Hyperloop week! And as if that wasn't exciting enough, plenty of other things went out of their ways to happen to. Area 51 is declassified! Google's DNS server had a freakout! We found out about carrots and Nazis and lyi...

This week's episode begins with Myriam and Brad singing a Rick Astley tune -- yeah, you've been warned. Stream it below to catch their extended thoughts on the Moto X, Xperia Z Ultra, Lumia Amber update and more! Hosts: ...

Need an excuse to go play with matches ? Too bad, you're getting one anyway. Turns out if you place a couple matches up against each other just right and then light them on fire (duh), you can actually perform a crazy li...

The device works great, but it does nothing without a smartphone plus a pricey app.

"Demo or die." That's the unofficial motto of Meta and it's a bedrock principle espoused by Raymond Lo, the company's CTO. Lo spent a decade under the tutelage of Professor Steve Mann (known to many as the father of wear...

Okay, this is it. Back to school, again. Whether it's your first college semester or you can see graduation on the horizon, these tools will make the next few months infinitely more bearable.

"Superlab Playset" has over 500 parts and costs about as much as 3 g of meth.

The Spanish had first dibs on ZTE's Open smartphone, but earlier this month we were told Americans and Brits would eventually be able to buy the Firefox OS device through ZTE's local eBay storefronts. Well, the pages are...

ICANN's loosening up and getting ready to roll out a whole new batch of .whatever generic top-level domains, but Google wanted more. Google was pushing for crazy, dotless domains like ://search . But the dream is over. I...

Canadians frequently wait longer for new technology than their American counterparts, but they're catching a break today. Following a MobileSyrup leak, Rogers has confirmed to Engadget that some of its stores will be sel...

We'd like to imagine that somewhere in Mountain View, a group of high-level tech execs are giving ICANN the stink eye. After all, the organization has recently passed a resolution that prohibits dotless domains, effectiv...

This isn't exactly a news flash but hey, fast food isn't good for you. And though sometimes that burger or that hot dog might look appetizing in your head , it never looks like that in real life. Jon Feinstein's photogra...

Seems that one of the better smartphone values on the market today is about to reintroduce itself to AT&T's customers, as @evleaks has just tipped the LG Optimus G Pro in white. Up until this point, the carrier has sold ...

So a hobo came up to me on the street last weekend to bum a smoke and regale me with a tale of how his forefathers invented the television. This, of course, brought about an almost immediate 1920s surveillance state with...

We'll say this about the AR.Drone's battery life up to now: it always seemed perfectly suited to our short attention spans. For those able to focus on flying objects a bit longer, however, there's the AR.Drone 2.0 Power ...

Above: Terrence O'Brien wearing a disguise comprised of a fake beard and aviators. Below: The streamable explanation. This is the Engadget Podcast. Hosts: Brian Heater, Terrence O'Brien, Peter Rojas Producer: Joe Pollici...

In what is quite possibly the most comprehensive look at the financial cost of being Batman, Movieclips Trailers analyzed the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy and compared Batman's gear to current market prices to come u...

Break ups are a horrible thing to go through! But what might be worse is that period of time right before a break up when you start to get annoyed with everything your girlfriend or boyfriend does. The way they slurp the...