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At some point, you've probably sat back and said "Couldn't we solve climate change and the broader energy crisis just by sticking solar panels to everything?" It's not a bad idea, mind, but the cost and resistance to suc...

Now that AT&T has acquired Leap Wireless (giving it Cricket Wireless in the process), it plans to discontinue Muve Music, the subscription music service tied to Cricket -- at least …

There's a game on the iTunes App Store that goes by the name Kiwanuka, and it's made for iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. This game is extremely simple and extremely …

Moms ! They gave you life, cared for you, raised you, taught you right from wrong, and most importantly, they loved you. But now that you've abandoned them to move on to bigger and better things (read: basement), moms ne...

If you use link-shortening service Bitly, you'll want to change your password--the company announced that account credentials (including passwords, API keys and OAuth tokens) have been compromised. In response, Bitly has...

Lumia shooters excel in low light and have some features iPhone cameras lack.

I enjoyed this animated short called Johnny Express and written, directed and animated by Kyungmin Woo very, very much. Give it a watch. It's about a lazy delivery man of the universe in the year 2150 who stumbles upon a...

Perseverance pays off, it seems. Just weeks after California's senate shot down a bill that would require a remote kill switch feature on smartphones, the legislature has passed an amended version of the same would-be la...

It's Friday, and the end of a loooong week. Everyone at Gizmodo is getting revved up for the Home of the Future , and I forgot to assign someone to post an Open Thread!

An incredibly rare megamouth shark has been caught in Japan, a deep water species with a distinctly disproportionately scaled body, of which fewer than 100 sightings have been recorded. The …

Dr. Dre hit it big this week with Apple flinging $3.2 billion his way for Beats Electronics and the Cristal beers were flowin' in celebration. Big Ben and JV are throwing down their thoughts on the matter, but it's not l...

Training for the imminent mission to an asteroid has begun in Houston, and it looks like fun. On Friday, astronauts Stan Love and Steve Bowen jumped in NASA's 40-foot-deep pool to try out a new suit design and several to...

Between 1936 and 1943, the Works Progress Administration produced about 2,000 posters to publicize everything from civic events to national parks. They're gorgeous. So gorgeous that graphic designer Steven Thomas used th...

When Nintendo designed Tomodachi Life, a bizarre life-sim that puts the company's Mii avatars in an exaggerated parody of reality, it probably didn't expect to provoke a marriage equality campaign. Community cries for 'M...

Imagine a different world, a world without Apple, the most dominant company in the world. Better yet, imagine a world where Apple never existed and never launched its computers, never …

A report from the Evening Standard makes a bonkers claim today: That London will be a backup if Rio can't get its act together for the Summer 2016 Olympics. The International Olympic Committee denies it. But that's a hel...

Speculation, rumor, innuendo -- the days and weeks leading up to Google I/O have it all. The long-anticipated, heavily rumored Nexus 8 is once again building steam, as are changes …

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...

The other week, Kelsey brightened your Friday afternoon with the tale of three cities that are each symbolized by a trademark booze: Chicago's Malört, NYC's iconic Manhattan cocktail, and London gin.

This two-year-old kid was taken to a wrestling show and, for the first time in his life, experienced fireworks. His expression of awe is genuine and yet not very different from the one I have every time I see them. Firew...

When Foursquare announced plans to split check-ins off into their own app last week, it didn't reveal too many details on how the finer points -- like Mayorships -- would factor in. Well, starting today, those virtual of...

Using advanced image processing and fluid mechanics analysis, MIT scientists have analyzed hundreds of high-speed sequences of sneezes to obtain an accurate model of fluid clouds and droplet trajectories with some fright...