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Biometric security has moved beyond just fingerprints and face recognition to vein-based authentication. Unfortunately, hackers have already figured out a way to crack that, too. According to Motherboard, security resear...

A crowdfunded smart speaker called Lily is a personal Chinese language tutor, according to the team behind it. This is the first smart speaker designed to teach language learners how to speak Chinese, doing so in a natur...

Even schoolkids can't escape China's increasing obsession with surveillance. Over 10 schools in the country's southwestern Guizhou province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region have made students wear "intelligent unifor...

Twitter is claiming to have resolved a bug that allowed a group of London-based security researchers to post unauthorized tweets to the accounts of British celebrities and journalists. But the hackers who initially discl...

Everyone hates spam texts, but only some Android users are reporting they're seeing alerts about a new spam protection feature from Google in their Messages app.

In 2016, a mysterious illness spread inside the National Institutes of Health's Clinical Center, the U.S. government's most prominent research hospital, in Bethesda, Maryland. Patients were somehow being sickened by an a...

The MCU's special effects get more and more impressive, from de-aging that looks actually realistic to Josh Brolin's impressive performance as a half-human half-CGI Thanos.

The Bangladeshi government isn't just counting on Facebook and Twitter crackdowns to protect its December 30th parliamentary election. The country's Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has shut down 3G and 4G mobile ...

Google has had a lawsuit in Illinois over its facial-recognition software thrown out, with a judge dismissing the case on the grounds that the plaintiff in the case did not suffer "concrete injuries," Bloomberg reported ...

Hackers just caused grief for North Korean defectors. South Korea's Unification Ministry has revealed that attackers stole the personal data of 997 defectors, including their names and addresses. The breach came after a ...

One of the most interesting ways of exploring the craft of a film is to read the screenplay. A good screenplay is a blueprint for the film based on it: it tells you so much of what you need to know, lets you visualize th...

The developers of RetroArch, an all-in-one emulation front-end that allows users to download emulator "cores" for a huge number of older consoles and which recently came to the Nintendo Switch, say it is coming to the Xb...

The partial government shutdown now certain to stretch through into the new year will have sweeping effects, from stalling important scientific research to vast economic impacts. But according to the Washington Post, the...

You know that cliche about how no one is impressed with Aquaman? Well, it might be time to retire it, because people apparently love Aquaman.

Computer scientists have spent more than two decades teaching, training and developing machines to see the world around them. Only recently have the artificial eyes begun to match (and occasionally exceed) their biologic...

All of us must face death eventually. That is even true of our best friends, the cars. It's inevitable and natural. But when the death is indicative of a greater and more depressing trend, then it's extremely sobering. T...

Donald Trump's hostage-taking of the federal government could further damage an economic sector already struggling from another of his combative policies: farmers.

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 ...

It used to be that spam was something we only really dealt with in our email, but these days it annoys us in the form of phone calls and text messages as well. Thankfully Android has introduced several features to combat...

A couple of perfect bedroom TVs, leather journals, and an extra discount on Eddie Bauer clearance items are some of the best deals on the web today.

Loveable, wonderful baby brother Loki. How bad a guy were you, really?

If you're a Magic: The Gathering player, you know that lands are the way that you generate mana, the resource that allows you to play cards. In a new video, YouTuber SaffronOlive explains how to get that balance of lands...