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It's pretty easy to trigger Google Assistant by accident either by pressing a button or saying anything that it mistakenly hears as a wake word. The tech giant promised last year to release a feature that would make it h...

The Star Wars galaxy may be taking a break at the box office, but it continues to expand on streaming.

YouTube's Originals division is working on a slate of COVID-19-related shows. They'll range from educational content to dance performances and a social media mystery series, and the lineup includes stars like Karlie Klos...

The CEO of Life Time gyms, Bahram Akradi, was on CNBC today defending his company's decision to soon reopen its gyms in states that are lifting lockdowns, such as Georgia. It feels like the kind of clip that will be play...

The waters surrounding the Antarctic Peninsula are warming rapidly, yet we know very little about how this is impacting some of the region's most charismatic denizens: the filter-feeding baleen whales that call this icy ...

There's no question that coral reefs are rapidly deteriorating due to overfishing, bottom trawling, warming temperatures and unsustainable coastal development. In order to help protect and restore reefs, scientists need ...

It's official: HBO Max, formerly known as "the untitled Warner Bros. streaming service," is launching May 27. While some recently arrived streamers have felt pretty skippable, HBO Max is dangerously near Disney+ levels o...

After more than a decade, we’re getting a brand new Flight Simulator game from Microsoft at some point this year. Dubbed only Microsoft Flight Simulator, there’s a good amount we don’t know about this game yet, but...

As smart and somewhat useful smart speakers and smart assistants have become, they have also become good for one unintended purpose. They have sometimes become the butt of jokes when citing comical anecdotes about smart ...

The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives plans to break with 200 years of precedent this week by allowing members of Congress to vote by designated proxy during the coronavirus pandemic. The voting by proxy plan ...

Motorola hasn’t launched a premium flagship since the Motorola Z3 Force in 2017 (the 2018 Motorola Z3 had 2017 specs). It may finally be breaking that cycle tomorrow when it announces the Motorola Edge and Motorola Edg...

Online communication has become even more vital these days due to social distancing and restrictions on travel. Instant messaging and video calling services have seen a sudden and gigantic spike in users and usage and th...

The US CDC has published a new advisory revealing that two pet cats have been diagnosed with mild cases of COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus. The cats are both located in New York, accordi...

Twitter just added 5G conspiracy theories to the growing list of unverified coronavirus claims that are grounds for removal. Under the new rules, Twitter will remove tweets with "unverified claims that incite people to e...

We already knew that people were turning to games to pass the time as we practice social distancing and isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic, but today, we’re getting an idea of just how much that’s happening. As i...

Electric scooter manufacturer Gogoro is getting into the ebike space, promising a new model that will launch this year. The Gogoro Eeyo will be the company’s first expansion out of the electric scooter segment, where i...

On the afternoon of Wednesday, April 22, SpaceX successfully launched its latest batch of Starlink satellites from its used Falcon 9 rocket. The Starlink satellites will provide broadband Internet access in places where ...

As the global quarantine for pandemic continues, the need for entertainment in every aspect of daily life rises. Here, alone at home, people of many sorts take to systems like Zoom to video chat with friends and associat...

Verizon (Engadget's parent company) will keep offering additional mobile data for a while longer to help people deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. The carrier is adding another 15GB of LTE data to regular and small busines...

A second wave of coronavirus could coincide with flu season and have lead to an even greater death toll, the director of the CDC has warned, sounding an early alarm amid talk by some US states of reopening plans. Though ...

GameStop is one company that found itself at the center of a lot of controversy in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. As leaders around the world put their states and countries on stay-at-home orders, GameStop a...

Gizmodo is looking at a lot of net art these days, but you'll have to scan further than Google Arts and Culture to find it, so we asked net artists for help. Today, Anthony Antonellis tells us about his long slog to conv...