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We really don't know a lot about Magic Leap, the secretive mixed reality company that made waves back in 2015 with a huge investment from Google. Magic Leap has been experimenting with light-bending nanomaterials, and ha...

The first Super Smash Bros. game launched on the N64 almost 20 years ago and became an instant classic. Every main Nintendo console since has brought a new entry to the series, but the inevitable iteration on the Switch ...

The Mercedes-Benz S Class represents the commitment to build the best car in the world, so you can’t accuse the German automaker of having low ambitions. Then again, with more than four million sales of the “Sonderkl...

Three years after we first started reporting on Magic Leap, and they’ve got some semblance of a real product. This company suggested that they had tech nearly ready for a broad scale release back in 2014, but now, hear...

The US military has used drones in combat zones for over a decade to scout and support infantry. Now they're testing a way to give ground troops another edge: The capability to build UAVs themselves. What's more, the US ...

You won't feel as proud of yourself for being able to shuffle a split deck at poker night after you watch the card manipulating skills of Huron Low, Kevin Ho, and Daren Yeow. The trio, also known as Virtuoso, can make a ...

Facebook released its latest transparency report today, which covered account data requests from the first half of 2017 and revealed a 21 percent increase in government requests for user data worldwide. Those requests ro...

Lockheed Martin and Aerion have teamed up to build the world’s first supersonic business jet. The two companies announced a Memorandum of Understanding late last week, explaining that they will go on to “define a for...

Facebook releases a bi-annual report that details all the data requests it gets from governments. The company just shared its latest Transparency Report for the first half of 2017. In addition to the usual information, l...

Early this year, we all pretended to be shocked when we saw a video of monkeys having sex with deer in Japan. New research actually studies the behavior.

Jose Zamora, VP of our parent company Univision, says that 2018 will bring a new focus on "revenue-first journalism." A fortuitous trend, from our perspective, because Splinter News is now about crypto.

Today we’re having a peek at what Samsung is bringing to the table in early 2018. The Samsung Galaxy S9 will likely come with a body that’s not extremely unlike that of its predecessor, but it’ll contain technology...

Volkswagen has committed to building an EV charging network in the US. By 2019, VW's Electrify America division plans to install 2,800 charging stations in 17 of the country's biggest cities, according to Reuters. It'll ...

In guidelines produced last year, the American Academy of Pediatrics advised parents to limit screen time to one to two hours a day for children between the ages of two and five years. New research suggests these recomme...

Our planet popped into existence some 4.5 billion years ago. Life didn't waste time, emerging shortly thereafter--but the exact timing of this momentous event is still unknown. A study published today offers new clues in...

Have you seen this GIF of a humanoid robot in a lab? It shows an inventor gently tossing a basketball at his robot. The inventor excitedly turns to the camera only to have the robot throw the ball back and hit him in the...

On December 18, 1987, developer Square released its first Final Fantasy title to the Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicon console. While Hironobu Sakaguchi thought it would be his last video game, the title was a financ...

To no one's surprise, Kaspersky Lab isn't happy that the US government has banned its software over the potential for Russian influence. The security firm has sued the Trump administration to challenge the ban, arguing t...

Plex, the company behind the personal media server software by the same name, has announced the launch of Plexamp, its own replacement for the beloved, basically defunct Winamp player. Plexamp is the first result of anot...

In the constant battle to ensure your privacy online, there are some precautions you can take to protect yourself, such as avoiding clicking random links and using different passwords for every site. But other measures r...

AMAZONAS, BRAZIL--The plane was cruising 144 feet above the Amazon River, and the door was held shut with duct tape. The roar of the engine and wind through a gap in the plane's wall--not a window but a half-open door--d...

Welcome back to IRL, our series dedicated to the things that Engadget writers have been playing, using, watching and listening to. This week we're focusing on music and podcasts, from Sia's Christmas album through to Rih...