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It's been rumored for months that Facebook might be interested in building its own, in-house processing chips. Now it appears the social network company is really going for it. Bloomberg reported Friday that Facebook man...

NASA has released an image showing “spiders” on Mars, small darks spots on the reddish landscape with tendrils one could easily perceive as tiny legs. The marks were captured by the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter i...

Left hand on A S D F? Good. Right hand on J K L and, for some reason, ";"? Congrats, you're in home position! A thing basically every learned in their school's computer lab and never used for the rest of their lives. Did...

Two US senators have some suspicions about smart TVs, and they're asking the Federal Trade Commission to look into the data collection practices employed by TV manufacturers to see if the internet-connected devices are q...

Google Fiber could get serious help from a new rule (PDF) the FCC is set to pass that would give individual companies access to poles across the US. Currently, independent bodies -- like, say, a new internet provider -- ...

The US' indictment of Russian officers over the DNC hacks is having an effect... at least, on Twitter. The social network has banned accounts for both DCLeaks and Guccifer 2.0 in response to the indictment. In a statemen...

Out of the whole block of Disney-centric cartoons from the late '80s and early '90s, TaleSpin, which used a version of Baloo from The Jungle Book as a protagonist, was probably the most distinct. Transposing Disney chara...

Only with someone like Donald Trump as president would journalists have to come up with scientific indicators to measure and describe the extent of the president's dishonesty and untrustworthiness.

Alex, the host of YouTube show LegitStreetCars, has a few Mercedes AMGs kicking around his garage. In recent testing, Alex saw his old C43 AMG lose a few drag races against a car it probably should not have lost to. In l...

We all make mistakes, but some are worse than others. Make a typo in a text message? No big deal. But if you accidentally tap the "0" one too many times when entering a payment on Venmo or misspell the recipient's userna...

The race to build a "flying car" has just become more crowded. This week, the Canadian company Opener revealed its new vehicle, called BlackFly. The one-person aircraft can travel up to 25 miles at a speed of 62 miles pe...

It sure makes perfect sense that each subsequent generational update of a particular piece of hardware would be better and faster than its predecessor, which is why it is far from surprising that the new Apple MacBook Pr...

You may not have heard of him, but his work is far more influential than you realize.

There have been a lot of peripherals in the history of video games. Light guns, fishing rods, and that giant Steel Battalion control board have graced store shelves and personal collections alike. But you might not know ...

Chrome's big UI revamp takes gets another version on nightly builds.

Chinese authorities have busted what they said was one of the world's largest online betting operations involving cryptocurrency, with over $1.5 billion in illicit bets allegedly on the line.

The first two official, non-production images of Star Trek: Discovery are out in the wild, and they showcase a new alien design as well as hint at a season that will begin, at least, with the meeting of the past and the ...

What started as a routine traffic stop has quickly escalated into a civil rights case in a Florida courtroom after a man was put behind bars this week for failing to unlock his phone.

Surface Go is Microsoft's big bet on a tiny-computer future Lauren Goode, Wired Microsoft debuted its much-rumored smaller Surface device this week, hoping to tempt the Windows faithful with a compact $399 option. Wired ...

One of the more recent trends in Silicon Valley is for the biggest tech companies to bring chip development in-house, rather than rely on third-party suppliers like Qualcomm and Intel. Apple has been doing this years alr...

The support shared among readers in the comments section is one of the things we love most about the Engadget community. Over the years, we've known you to offer sage advice on everything from Chromecasts and cameras to ...

Gaming fans may remember back to 2014 when Konami released a demo on the PS4 called P.T., or “playable teaser,” for a new Silent Hills game. The demo was eventually pulled and the entire Silent Hills project, which w...