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Bowers & Wilkins P7 Headphones: Over-Ear Excellence, Over-the-Top Price
Gizmodo - 17 Sep 2013 10:35
Bowers and Wilkins has been making excellent on-ear headphones for a while now, but with the P7s it's offering up its first-ever over-ear cans--for a price.
EA Sports, Origin head Andrew Wilson named new Electronic Arts CEO
Engadget - 17 Sep 2013 23:48
Following the resignation of CEO Job Riccitiello back in March, Electronic Arts has announced that the head of EA Sports, Andrew Wilson, has been named as the successor. Wilson also served as an executive producer of the...
Tour the Wondrous, Hand-Cranked World of a Modern-Day da Vinci
Gizmodo - 17 Sep 2013 23:40
This gorgeous experimental film by director Joey Bania explores the unique and dazzlingly creative world of Blair Somerville, resident inventor, tinkerer, and self-described "organic mechanic" of Popotowai, New Zealand. ...
Adobe Creative Cloud hits 1 million subscribers, Projects Mighty and Napoleon available in 2014
Engadget - 17 Sep 2013 23:12
During today's Q3 earnings report, Adobe announced that its Creative Cloud software service had passed one million subscribers since launching in June. In addition to reaching that milestone much faster than expected, th...
All Arguments Should Be Settled With Lightsaber Thumb Wrestling
Gizmodo - 17 Sep 2013 23:00
If a lightsaber can turn a drunken bar brawl into what appears to be an elegant duel, imagine what it could do for the thumb wrestling matches you have with your roommates to decide on pizza toppings. But you don't have ...
DARPA Wants a Spacejet That Makes Drones Look Like Paper Planes
Gizmodo - 17 Sep 2013 22:58
Putting satellites into orbit is no easy task, especially with the demise of the Space Shuttle program. Which is why DARPA's going to make itself a spacejet.
Will regular consumers hate or love the new Apple look and feel?
Gizmodo - 17 Sep 2013 22:51
iOS 7--Apple's revamped mobile operating system--will be available for all consumers tomorrow. It will be a shock for every John and Jane out there. Will they hate it or love it?
Join the Engadget HD Podcast live on Ustream at 5:15PM ET
Engadget - 17 Sep 2013 22:42
It's Tuesday, the new regular day for the Engadget HD Podcast. We hope you'll appreciate us clearing up Monday for football and join us live when the Engadget HD podcast starts recording at 5:15PM. If you'll be joining u...
Facebook Offers Tools To Help Prevent Suicide
Gizmodo - 17 Sep 2013 22:37
September is Suicide Prevention Month, and Facebook is sharing a new infographic and a site-wide public service announcement to help users find the resources they need when a friend makes troubling posts on the social ne...
Evernote releases native app for BlackBerry 10
Engadget - 17 Sep 2013 22:19
Evernote's had a presence on BlackBerry 10 since the early days of the OS, but today the cloud-based service is taking things a bit further. As of now, BB10 users can download a native version of Evernote, which offers a...
Adobe's Experimental Stylus Just Got Real, And Is Coming Within a Year
Gizmodo - 17 Sep 2013 22:09
When Adobe unveiled its first attempt at building hardware tools--a stylus called Project Mighty and a digital ruler called Project Napoleon--last April, the company was careful to describe the devices as prototypes, dan...
AllThingsD: carriers indicate lower than usual iPhone 5s stock ahead of Friday's launch
Engadget - 17 Sep 2013 21:43
If last week's announcement got you all worked up about a new Apple handset, you may have to wait a little while longer. AllThingsD reports that sources from multiple US carriers are showing "grotesquely" low inventory l...
The Best Rugged In-Ear Headphones
Gizmodo - 17 Sep 2013 21:40
If you like music, you must have good headphones. It's that simple. To do otherwise would be to cheat yourself out of one of life's great pleasures. Why would you want to do that?
Windows 8.1 will start at $120 if you're not upgrading from Windows 8
Engadget - 17 Sep 2013 21:16
If you already have Windows 8 installed on your PC, Windows 8.1 will be a free upgrade in the Windows Store. (But if you own a Windows 8 PC, you probably already knew that.) Now, Microsoft has revealed pricing for people...
Why iOS 7 Is Apple's Most Important New Product in Years
Gizmodo - 17 Sep 2013 21:01
Tomorrow, millions of current iPhone and iPad owners will be prompted to update iOS with a tap. Friday, millions more new iPhone buyers will start receiving their already updated rainbow pastel plastic iPhones in the mai...
America's First Bookless Public Library Has Arrived Right On Schedule
Gizmodo - 17 Sep 2013 21:00
America's first completely bookless public library opened in San Antonio this past weekend. That is, if you define a "book" as words printed on paper pages which are bound together with glue. But if you define "book" a b...
Dealzmodo: $7 Tablet Stand, 4TB USB3 $140, Panasonic Sound Bar, 5D III
Gizmodo - 17 Sep 2013 21:00
Continuing the trend of ultra-cheap accessories for your portable devices, here's a foldable tablet stand for under $7. The stand supports both landscape and portrait modes, fits in your pocket, and holds most tablets an...
New Nexus 7 with LTE now available for purchase from Google Play in Canada, UK, France and more
Engadget - 17 Sep 2013 20:45
Live outside of the Sates and eagerly awaiting a LTE-enabled Nexus 7? Well, Google has just obliged by making the 7-inch slate available in a handful of locales through its Play Store. The 4G tablet is now for sale to wi...
The Most Beautiful iPhone Case of All Is Now Fully Customizable
Gizmodo - 17 Sep 2013 20:40
It's hard to stand out in a crowd when you and millions of other people all have the same smartphone. So DODOcase, makers of some of the finest phone and tablet cases around, are now letting iPhone users create their own...
The new lifecycle of your old iPhone
Ars Technica - 17 Sep 2013 20:30
Where phones go when you give them to resellers, and where parts come from now.
Droid Maxx Review: A Battery Beast for Major Bucks
Gizmodo - 17 Sep 2013 20:20
The playing field has sort of leveled out with phones when it comes to specs. Most are fast enough, and most help you do the things you want to do easily. Most have good enough cameras. But battery remains final frontier...
Google keeps it green, purchases 240MW of wind power in Texas
Engadget - 17 Sep 2013 20:03
Google's goal of meeting its electrical needs with renewable sources got another big boost today. The Happy Hereford wind farm in Texas will produce 240 megawatts of juice, and all of that output has been bought by Big G...