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Back at the beginning of August we heard that Android 7.0 Nougat might be landing during the first week of the month, but that week came and went with no launch happening. We now have a new rumor that suggests that Andro...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has already issued one Zika-related travel advisory in the United States, but that soon may expand to one of our country's largest summer party cities.

Home improvement projects are rarely interesting, unless you're an astronaut. Right now NASA's Kate Rubins and Jeff Williams are installing the first of two new docking adapters into the side of the International Space S...

Two years ago, Facebook proposed a system to make its workforce less universally white or Asian and male. The plan was to incentivize its in-house recruiters to hire diverse candidates, literally giving them more points ...

This week has been AI week here at Engadget, which means we've been examining the variety of ways that artificial intelligence is changing our technological landscape and our society as a whole -- from meeting the bots t...

Flamingos are pretty cool — they can even maintain their balance in the water on soft ground with a single leg, without having to teeter totter from one side to another. Not only that, they are cute and have been the o...

Niantic is trying to make Pokemon Go more fair for its millions of players across the globe, this week officially confirming that it will ban any account that appears to be cheating. "After reviewing many reports of in-g...

If you're a Windows, Mac or Linux user, the odds are really, really low that you're also a Chrome apps user. According Google, only about one percent of the users on those platforms are 'actively' utilizing packaged Chro...

On August 4th, seven different artificial intelligence systems competed against each other to see which was best at hacking. The Cyber Grand Challenge was sponsored by DARPA (the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Age...

The amount of "fake food" you eat annually is probably higher than you would like. And no, we're not talking about food made from plastic.

With its close ties to San Francisco and Silicon Valley, Google naturally has its hands in the region's huge startup economy. To further its involvement, the company has announced plans to open a 14,000 square foot space...

Stop us if you've read this before: Mercedes-Benz has another ridiculous concept car. At CES 2015, we got a close look at the F015 Luxury in Motion self-driving concept and now the automaker is back with an all-electric ...

Facebook knows more about your personal life than you probably realize. As part of the company's increasingly aggressive advertising operation, Facebook goes to great lengths to track you across the web. The company comp...

On Monday, a group of hackers calling themselves the Shadow Broker put up a number of cyber-espionage tools reportedly stolen from NSA-associated hacking outfit, the Equation Group. Edward Snowden has already publicly sp...

Microsoft's first big Anniversary Update for Windows 10 went live earlier this month. With it came improved pen performance, new Cortana features, and an all around better Windows. Two weeks later, it's become clear that...

If you've installed the recently-released Windows 10 Anniversary Update and noticed your USB webcam is acting screwy, you're not alone. It seems the decision to prevent them from using the popular MJPEG and H.264 encodin...

Sennheiser has taken the wraps off three new audio products: a pair of audio amplifiers, the GSX 1200 PRO and the GSX 1000, for PC and Mac, as well as a gaming headset, the GSP 300, said to be kicking off a new line of s...

Samsung announced a host of new gear earlier this month, the most notable of which is its excellent new Galaxy Note 7 handset, and it's all available now in the US. The phone is now on sale at AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, US...

Remember back in July when we told you that the FCC had called on carriers and device makers to help in the fight against robocalls? You'd be forgiven if you thought nothing would come of the FCC's urging, but the very n...

Having a baby can be a very exciting time for parents, especially if they are new parents. There will be a whole lot of doting on to do, not to mention making sure that the little one is well kept and under surveillance ...

The planets in No Man's Sky are so vast, that one player has spent 30 hours adventuring on his starter planet. It's amazing.

Chrome OS will remain supported "for the foreseeable future."