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With stunning image quality and powerful new features, HERO4 cameras take Emmy® Award-winning GoPro performance to a whole new level. Choose from HERO4 Black, with incredible high-resolution 4K 30 and 2.7K50 video and h...

OH JESUS-FREAKING-YODA-ON-A-POGO-STICK! YES! I've waited for this for a very long time, but at last is here: The Slave I--Boba Fett's bounty hunter ship from The Empire Strikes Back--has been revealed and it's freaking c...

Snapchat is about to gain a new investor: Yahoo. So says the Wall Street Journal, which is reporting that Yahoo will reinvest a bit of its Alibaba cash into the mobile app. The information comes from "people familiar wit...

So, we have just ushered in autumn, which is when the colors of the leaves happen to change in order to have that magical look about them. Of course, with that, it also means there is one more chore that you would need t...

To celebrate the launch of the Lumia 830 in the UK and all of the Trek-flavored nerdiness going down at Destination Star Trek in London, Microsoft has taught given its virtual assistant a crash course in the ways of Qo'n...

Drones are a growing part of society, which is still trying to figure out how they should -- and shouldn't -- be used. Among this debate is under what circumstances law enforcement can use drones for surveillance, and wh...

Solar power is an important part of our future, but in many ways it is still too expensive. The Ohio State University has helped lessen that issue with a new device it created -- a solar cell that serves as its own batte...

This morning, we woke up to a post-Saturday-Morning-Cartoons America . That got plenty of us talking about our former TV watching routines, and that made me wonder: In an era of on-demand, mobile, streaming content, do y...

An international team of researchers has traced the "epidemic ignition" of HIV/AIDS to 1920s Kinshasa, what is now the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

With the Fire HD 6 we see Amazon approach the standard paperback book size device. But this device is not aimed at reading alone, it's aimed at every kind of Amazon-based media. It is, after all, an Amazon-centric device...

Known mainly as the RSS reader/syncing tool that many internet users flocked to when Google Reader was shut down, web service Feedly is looking to dip its toes into the social pool with a number of new social network-lik...

Google surely has a lot of tricks in store for the Now app: one of the latest to surface, for instance, reminds American voters to register for November's general elections. Residents in Michigan, Pennsylvania and likely...

When you hop into a hot air balloon, you expect to fly up. Not anymore. For the first time ever, a hot air balloon was successfully flown down and underground into the Mamet Cave in Croatia. Even better, it was a 70-year...

Redbox Instant, Verizon's Netflix-battling streaming movie service and the companion to the automated DVD rental kiosk in your grocery store's entryway, is shutting down on October 7th at 11:59PM. Better get your binge-w...

And in the 1800s, some people might have actually been interested in using it.

It's the question of our age: what to do with all those unused pay phone booths now that almost everyone has their own cell phone? Well, two entrepreneurs in London may have found the perfect solution, and it's eco-frien...

From Chris Brinlee Jr. on Indefinitely Wild: They say that if you don't like the weather in Iceland, wait five minutes and it'll change. Multiply that by mountains, glaciers and volcanoes and you've got a recipe for adve...

If you thought that Redbox Instant would have trouble competing against a streaming video behemoth like Netflix, you were right. The Verizon-backed service is telling customers that Instant will shut down just before mid...

The use of drones, by the military and law enforcement, as well as by the public, has quickly become an important topic of discussion in the news today. When it comes to private use, two of the most common concerns are s...

It was a big week here at Gizmodo! We brought you a review of the most badass Nerf gun ever created, a ride on the new Uber for private airplanes, and a guest post from Steve Wozniak about a beloved friend and computer i...

I had the full attention of Engadget's San Francisco office as I unpacked Epson's latest augmented reality headset, the Moverio BT-200. The glasses make for one heavy, awkward wearable: Coke-bottle thick lenses with inla...

If you want protection from privacy intrusions by private UAV pilots, don't go all Annie Oakley on your neighbor's quadcopter like this guy; that's super illegal in most American cities. Instead, try these simple means o...