Gadget News

Scientists have been studying some newly discovered fossils of butterfly scales that are the size of a speck of dust. The fossils were found inside an ancient rock from Germany. The scientists say that the find pushes ba...

Tesla Model 3 owners are unhappy right now after what appears to be a material change in the $5,000 premium upgrade package (PUP) has been seen rolling out of the factory. Originally images of the Model 3 with the PUP sh...

Joel Seligman, the President of the University of Rochester, has announced his resignation today after 12 years in the role. This occurred the same day that an "independent" Special Committee released the results of thei...

After spending more than half a decade living in the nation’s London embassy, Julian Assange has been granted Ecuadorian citizenship. Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, took up residence in the embassy to dodge Swedish...

A smartphone app and recent FCC filing strongly hints that Louis Vuitton has a new tech product on the way: A luggage tracker that pairs with particular bags sold by the fashion company. Sources tell Engadget that it wil...

An emerging trend among pet owners is the practice of feeding dogs and cats raw meat. This idea is that we should put our domestic cats and dogs on diets that more closely approximate what they might eat in nature. New r...

Throughout 2017, Nintendo bolstered its first-party offerings on the Switch with ports of Mario Kart 8 and Pokken Tournament, two games that originally appeared on the Wii U. The thought process behind this is pretty cle...

A preview version of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds launched on Xbox One on December 12th and at the end of 2017, it already had over three million players. The game broke records left and right last year, so this may not...

SkyBell has announced a new security camera simply called the Plug-in Camera. That names hints at the camera’s most notable feature: it plugs into the wall. Yes, every camera plugs into the wall, but SkyBell’s new mo...

All but three land mammal species living on New Zealand today were brought there by modern humans, beginning around 800 years ago--and all three of those native mammal species are bats. But a newly discovered bat fossil ...

Intel wanted to do something interesting with a whole bunch of drones, and they landed on Las Vegas. A lovely show of lights in more than 4 billion color combinations flew over the Fountains of Bellagio, making a mockery...

To the untrained eye, babies are nothing more than drooling, crying blobs who do basically nothing all day. But a recent study published in Environmental Science & Technology has found that babies are actually drooling, ...

It's been about a month since American Express and Mastercard decided to stop requiring signatures for EMV chip credit cards. Now Visa is joining their ranks, making signatures optional for chipped transactions in North ...

As of today, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has been available on Xbox One for a month. On December 12, PUBG entered Xbox Preview, which is Microsoft’s program for unfinished games that want to give players access bef...

Lawmakers are determined to bury any dreams that Chinese electronics manufacturer Huawei has ever had of gaining traction in the US. After pressuring AT&T to kill a major deal with the company this week, members of Congr...

Waymo's self-driving minivans are now ready for the road. The company has confirmed to TechCrunch that it's testing its autonomous Chrysler Pacifica vehicles on San Francisco streets, where the "hilly and foggy" environm...

Last year, Allied Esports and Esports Arena announced plans to convert a Luxor Hotel and Casino nightclub into the Las Vegas strip's first dedicated eSports arena. That arena is almost complete and is scheduled to open o...

Members of the United States Senate are the latest American politicians to be targeted by Russian hackers, according to a report by the cybersecurity firm Trend Micro.

Last year was a coming out party for battery packs with built-in AC outlets, and now, they're finally starting to get more affordable.

For as much hype as GM's 'production ready' driverless, control-free car has gotten, both from GM themselves and the media, you'd think they'd have bothered to make something that looks like they, you know, thought about...

CES 2018 kicked off with a major Google presence on the show's front doorstep. Nathan's already explained why the company may have decided to appear at the world's biggest tech show with such strength, but halfway throug...

Niantic revealed Pokemon GO Community Day this week as a monthly event that’ll take place at parks around the world. “Pokémon GO Community Day is an opportunity for Trainers around the world to meet up at their loca...