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The Financial Times is the hands-down paper of choice for anyone trying to seem clever in a job interview. So it makes sense that to understand its fantastic new 404 error page, you need a highbrow sense of humor and a s...

Many in the tech sphere will tell you that HBO's Silicon Valley is sometimes too accurate in its send-up of the San Francisco Bay Area's frequently ridiculous startup culture. But how good would it be if someone who actu...

NASA's New Horizons probe didn't swing by Pluto just to snap a few photos and run off -- it collected a ton of extra data that hasn't seen the light of day. Well, it's finally sending that data back to Earth... very, ver...

According to a rumor from the Wall Street Journal, Amazon is readying a $50, 6-inch Android tablet for a launch before Christmas this year. The company hasn't had runaway success with its existing line of Android tablets...

When you have to travel for work, it’s hard to get a good night of sleep every night. You’re in a new hotel seemingly every day, there’s new noises, lights, and the room is slightly different every time. It’s har...

Often, it's the things you don't notice that make or break a movie, and there's no more subtle mindfuckery than playing tricks with aspect ratios.

Amazon is launching a new 6-inch tablet in time for the holidays, according to The Wall Street Journal, and its main selling point will apparently be its rock-bottom pricing: $50. The company's Fire HD 6 tablet costs twi...

When you need a drink of water at basically any place that’s not your home, chances are it’s coming from a faucet. We can’t really drink clean water from lakes, ponds, and streams, and it’s not that we have time ...

How do you take control of the cable nightmare?

The debate over gun control in America has popped up a lot in the past few years, but I never thought it would eventually have this impact. Parents are naming their children after guns. And they're doing it so frequently...

"Man, China gets all the good phones." This is the kind of comment we've been hearing a lot lately. But, very few of those Chinese smartphones make it to Western markets. Besides, some folks remain skeptical of Chinese s...

Patent number US20150246720 was published yesterday, from Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America. It's a design for a wing system for a potential flying car. And not just any wing system -- it's a stackin...

Android Pay should be rolling soon, but if you can't wait for soon to get here, there are ways to get the app working on your phone now. Well, kind of...

APS-H sensor can shoot 19580--12600 at 5 FPS, can resolve details 11 miles away.

London has the oldest subway system in the world: great for tourism, but sometimes not-so-great for commuters. There's all sorts of sensible plans to upgrade the city's public transport, but here's one particularly outsi...

The Engadget team has been in Berlin, Germany for over a week, but now it's time to go home. This year's IFA, Europe's biggest tech show, didn't leave many surprises behind. That said, we did come across some fancy new w...

If curved screens and the apparent threat of 8K leave you cold towards 4K, maybe Philips' focus on the back of its UHD TVs will get you to open up your wallet. The company's brought its crazy, dreamy projection-backed pr...

Citizens of the Thai capital Bangkok witnessed a huge fireball descending on the horizon this morning, and thanks to the dashcams in their cars, we can admire the celestial visitor from several different angles.

One day we might be able to make home refrigerators without any chemicals or industrial coolants. The main hope for this comes from a special property of metal and a quirk of entropy.

The 2015 fire season has been brutal so far, and relief for many parts of the U.S. can't come soon enough. Last month, the National Preparedness Level for wildfires was elevated to Level 5, which is the highest possible ...

Apple kick-started the mobile digital assistant thing with Siri some years ago, but it's Google who mostly run the machine learning show, with its creepily efficient Google Now service. Based on its jobs postings, Apple ...

Masters of Sex spent two seasons building the Masters and Johnson relationship, and the first nine episodes of the third season testing what might break it. Unhappy children? Unexpected pregnancies? Johnson sleeping with...