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Around a month ago, SpaceX launched one of its Dragon cargo capsules into space, loading it up with supplies destined for the International Space Station. Now, it has made it safely back to Earth, splashing into the Paci...

Exaggerated reports appeared earlier this week claiming a US Air Base in Greenland had been struck by a meteor. That’s not true, the Air Force has said, but it did confirm that a meteor hit miles away with considerable...

On August 1st, Defense Distributed was set to upload designs of 3D-printed guns for the public to buy and download. But the day before, a Seattle judge temporarily blocked their release after seven states and Washington,...

Insects are a common food item in some parts of the world, but have been slow to catch on in the US. Despite the potential environmental benefits of consuming edible insects, many people remain adverse to the idea of eat...

The new SKU is an install option for the latest Insider builds.

Earlier this week, reports emerged that Google has been internally developing a censored search engine that would bring the company back within the confines of China's Great Firewall. The company has refused to answer qu...

Captain Jean-Luc Picard is to return, with Sir Patrick Stewart again to star as the iconic Star Trek character in a new series. The show, as-yet untitled, will be made for CBS All Access, with Stewart confirming the news...

CBS is banking on more Star Trek shows as a way to draw in more viewers, and it's clearly ready to pull out all the stops in the process. The network has confirmed that it's launching an All Access series that will conti...

A computer virus infected systems at multiple Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) factories on Friday night, disrupting operations at precisely the same time it is attempting to ramp up production for tech gian...

The most venerable captain in Star Fleet history is back.

The Overwatch Summer Games is coming back for the third year and is scheduled to begin on August 9th. True to its name, the annual Games features summer-themed events within Overwatch, including the soccer-inspired 3v3 b...

One of the hottest debates about the plot of Star Wars: The Last Jedi is the question of hotshot, insubordinate pilot Poe Dameron. Did Poe do anything wrong? Is the beautiful hotshot pilot guilty of doing material harm t...

Many of the tech products launching this fall might have just run into production setbacks. Giant chip manufacturer TSMC has warned that several of its fabrication plants suffered virus infections on August 3rd, disrupti...

The Democratic National Committee is warning candidates, party officials, and campaign workers to steer clear of Huawei and ZTE mobile devices--apparently under the concern that the smartphones could used to spy on them....

It shouldn't come as any surprise that Venom is in part a Todd McFarlane creation. His creative hallmarks, emphasizing the Gothic, the monstrous, and the uncanny, are all over his design. It's also not a surprise that Mc...

One of the nice things about a big, media-friendly event like the TCA press tour (currently rounding the corner into its final week of press release-unleashing hell) is that you can sometimes directly ask the people who ...

Campaigns enter texting era with a plea: Will u vote 4 me? Kevin Roose, The New York Times Political candidates have a number of tools at their disposal to try and win your vote. Slick branding, TV commercials and social...

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 ...

In May 1986, the venerated Carnegie Hall concert venue in New York City shut down for 30 weeks of major repairs. The beautiful music hall had hosted legends including Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Judy Garland, Duke Ellingto...

Gen:Lock, the newest series from Rooster Teeth, is a bit shrouded in mystery. We know there are giant robots and some big names, but we've seen scant little of the intriguing series in action. This new teaser gives us a ...

As it goes, the futility of a feature is painfully apparent when someone decides to exploit it. For me, this feature is Facebook's ability to allow event hosts to manually change someone's RSVP. I noticed the feature its...

You might thing your home network is complete after you buy a good router, but that's not true! There's a lot of ways to to improve it, and how you compute. But the best gadget to invest in after a solid router is a Netw...