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I've never really lived in a neighborhood that drew a lot of Trick-or-Treaters, but that doesn't keep me from buying Halloween candy. Obviously, this is a task I take very seriously because, even if zero children visit m...

Hundreds of cars were stranded when a mudslide swamped a Southern California freeway last night in what felt like a chilling dress rehearsal for the El Niño on the way. The mudslide is a reminder that it's not just heav...

One of the great early civilizations collapsed in a mere fifty years, with 75% of the population disappearing a century later. What the hell happened to ancient Greece?

Here's a really cool video showing the daily routine of Chelsea Miller, a knife maker. It's fun because it's filmed from her perspective so you get to see what it really takes. Fiercely Curious, who made the video, write...

Dystopian visions of the future always portray scenarios where humans have destroyed Earth and turned it into a desolated and almost uninhabitable place. But our planet probably doesn't really care. It will just wait us ...

Researchers in Japan have developed a remarkable new robot that bears a startling resemblance to the Droideka of Star Wars. Called QRoSS, this throwable, sphere-shaped robot can move around either by rolling or walking o...

Whether you like it or not, here might be coming your computer's update to Windows 10. A recent update to genuine Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 computers has apparently included a checked box intended to be opt-in for an aut...

Ever hear of whiteflies? They're the color of snowflakes and practically as tiny, but they're global plant-killers. One of their favorite snacks is the cassava, a root that's a crucial staple food for 700 million people ...

Following spacecraft Cassini's flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus on October 14th, NASA has released the first photos of the satellite's north pole region. While more photos are still being transmitted to Earth over the ne...

Relax folks, the latest Flash vulnerability has been fixed, according to a security bulletin from Adobe. Yesterday we learned that Flash on Windows, Macs and Linux all had a critical vulnerability that "could cause a cra...

Get your weekend started right by watching how sperm sometimes form power-swimming blocks to get ahead. And learn why these particular sperm get together.

From all of your custom Super Mario Maker levels, to Steam Machines and now to Yoshi's Woolly World on Wii U in one week, you can't say we aren't afraid to switch things up now and again here on Engadget Playdate. When h...

If you're familiar with Amazon's Echo speaker, you'll also be familiar with its voice service, Alexa. Today, Amazon announced that Invoxia's own connected speaker, Triby, will work with the Alexa voice service; this will...

Yakuza 5 launched in Japan for the PlayStation 3 in December 2012. Three years and one console generation later, it's heading to North American PS3s in "mid-November, if all goes to schedule." Sega announced the release ...

This week, NASA published an incredible photo of our sun, and within the image we see a giant, somewhat jagged black void. That dark spot is a big coronal hole, according to the space agency, an area on the sun where "th...

"Did someone send you a fancy crack pipe?"

Claw marks rip open tree bark, oozing sap like a botanical blood. Scratches like this scream a single message loud and clear: a bear was here. They aren't subtle creatures.

Turbulent motion is a tricky concept to convey to the public without resorting to complicated mathematical equations. But what if you could take those abstract notions and turn them into a dance?

Some of the most notable changes to the latest version of Chrome are what's going away, rather than what's new. A few days ago, Google confirmed that it was removing the notification center in Chrome for Mac, Windows and...

If you’ve ever ridden a bike before, then you know exactly how much of the road you feel. Bicycles are not flexible or designed to work with your body, so any little bumps you hit are going to travel up to your hands a...

In a demonstration of what is perhaps the freakiest technology ever, Stanford researchers have managed to take the facial expressions from one person's face and transplant them onto another person's face...in real time t...

We made it through the whole week! So it's time to bust out your inner Greek rollerskating muse and get your GIF Party on!