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The same service you've been using with your smartphone for several months is hitting the desktop world this week with Google+ Auto Backup. This software ships - strangely enough - …

Archos has revealed a new connected home system which will hook up your security, appliances, and even your dog to a smart ecosystem, all controlled by a new 7-inch "Home …

Monster Grips are a revolutionary guitar pick grip that is super grippy, non-sticky, and stays clean. As guitarists, we understand the frustration of dropping picks, or having to use only specific brands. Monster Grips a...

Nokia is clearly on a roll in the courtroom as of late -- following lawsuit wins in the Netherlands, the US and the UK, the company has landed a German injunction banning all of HTC's Android-based devices. The ruling le...

Chrome OS is at last gaining some momentum -- among US businesses and schools, anyway. The NPD Group reports that Chromebooks represented 9.6 percent of all computing devices sold through American commercial channels in ...

Pirating music: People love to do it, but what are they snagging? Data company Musicmetric rounded up a list of the most pirated artists of the year and it might surprise you.

Thought using the Wii U GamePad as a simple PC controller was a neat trick? Try this on for size: a small team of hackers has figured out how to stream PC games to the tablet-esque controller natively, circumventing its ...

With Engadget's new tools, you can track price drops on thousands of devices every day, and once a week we feature some of the best deals right here. But act fast! Many of these are limited-time offers, and won't last lo...

The Cocones Wool Felt and Sleeve for the iPhone is made of 100 percent pure Merino Wool Felt and premium leather. It comes in a minimalistic design that's classic and handsome enough to make you want to hide the sleek an...

But the platform switch might be coming just when Google TV is getting good.

Der Spiegel's fairly harrowing report about the NSA's hacking unit, Tailored Access Operations (TAO) got a little more harrowing this morning when an unnamed blogger at LeakSource published images from the agency's hilar...

Apple CEO Tim Cook has pressured the company board on pay, though not the way you might imagine: the chief exec has demanded his salary be more closely linked to …

How about giving a nerdy Doctor Who fan the ultimate gift this year: hacked access to a BBC server. That was the deal apparently on offer on some "underground" internet sites on Christmas Day, after a hacker allegedly ga...

People attribute a lot of annoying internet stuff to bots. Twitterbot followers, bots that sneak past spam filters, bots that send weird gibberish on messaging services. It sounds kind of tired, but maybe the situation i...

These images look pretty great considering they're 100 years old. They look even better when you learn they've been sealed in Antarctic ice for 100 years.

The State Department hoped the building of satellite monitoring stations might soften tempers between the US and Russia, which have flared in the wake of asylum for Edward Snowden and arguments over Syrian politcs. Congr...

If you consider yourself both extremely frugal and averse to the luxuries of seeing Hollywood eye candy actors in Super HD, Netflix's new SD tier could be right up your alley. The streaming service has begun offering a l...

Microsoft's clandestine Midori, a skunkworks project developing a non-Windows OS, could spawn a new open-source programming language called "M#" insiders claim, a spin-off of existing C#. Chatter of the scheme …

If you own a smartphone and actually use it on a daily basis, there's a good chance you've always got a backup battery close at hand. But what about your MacBook? Instead of desperately hunting for a plug when its batter...

It's not supposed to be that hard to figure out if something is liquid or if something is solid. If it flows like water, it's liquid. If it stays relatively still, it's solid. But what if it's a substance that breaks the...

Walmart's Vudu online video store has added Intel's "UltraViolet" (UV) content library to its own. The move will expand Vudu viewers' selection to include titles by UV's digital distribution model. …

We all have our personal favorite posts from this year--and we'll be sharing those tomorrow--but it's also worth taking a look at the 100 posts you clicked on most in 2013. Some are funny, some are heartfelt, and some I ...