Ah, Flappy Bird. It’s been a long time since I last gave any thought to the game-turned-cultural-phenomenon that briefly had us all in a chokehold a decade ago. At least, that was the case unti...
In between beach visits and grilling sessions this holiday weekend, it’s worthwhile to turn to the internet to save a little bit on tech you may have had on your wishlist. The Memorial Day sal...
Elon Musk told investors this month that his startup xAI is planning to build a supercomputer by the fall of 2025 that would power a future, smarter iteration of its Grok chatbot, The Information...
Resident Evil 6 has sold surprisingly well on the Nintendo Switch since it was ported to the console in 2019, despite it being almost universally panned by fans of the series. As spotted by Ninte...
ICQ, which used to be a very popular messaging app for a short period in the 90s and the early aughts, only has a month left before it joins the other apps and software of old in the great big fa...
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The families of the shooting victims at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas have sued Call of Duty publisher Activision and Meta . They alleged that the companies "knowingly exposed the sho...
If you’ve been craving some help with cleaning, this Memorial Day Roomba sale may be up your alley. Wellbots has the iRobot Roomba Combo J9+ , Engadget’s favorite vacuum-mop combo , for $425 ...
A SpaceX testing stand at the company's McGregor, Texas facilities went up in flames during a test of its Raptor 2 engines on the afternoon of May 23. According to NASASpaceflight , the engine h...
https://www.engadget.com/spacex-raptor-engine-test-ends-in-a-fiery-explosion-110052362.html?src=rss
THE FOLLOWING CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR “73 YARDS.” Russell T. Davies admits his writing eschews narrative formalism in favor of things that just feel right. Two decades ago, his critics pointe...
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YouTube Music for Android is finally releasing a long-awaited tool that lets people hum a song to search for it, in addition to singing the tune or playing the melody on an instrument, according ...
Russia has reportedly found new, more effective ways to knock out Ukraine’s Starlink service . The New York Times said on Friday that the increased interference has disrupted communications at...
The UK has passed a bill that's the country's version of the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA). Legislators fast-tracked the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers (DMCC) Bill befor...
Apple once designed a Tetris clone that has been found on a prototype version of the third-generation iPod, indicating the company was experimenting with releasing the game on the music player. I...
The dog who inspired the famous meme coin Dogecoin has died, according to a post on Instagram by its owner . Kabosu, an adorable Shiba Inu, was likely around 18 years old, though owner Atsuko Sat...
https://www.engadget.com/the-doge-dog-has-died-162733508.html?src=rss
It's taken Nintendo two decades, but the company is finally ready to open a second store in the US. The new location in San Francisco’s Union Square is set to open its doors in 2025. Details a...
https://www.engadget.com/nintendo-is-finally-opening-a-second-us-store-155001183.html?src=rss
Lucid Motors has cut 400 jobs, according to a regulatory filing . This amounts to around six percent of the workforce. Incidentally, the company also cut a whopping 1,300 jobs last year. This all...
Epic Games has an uncanny habit of making sure Fortnite is in tune with the cultural zeitgeist and that's very much the case once again. After a strong season focused on Greek gods and monsters...
It’s already pretty complicated to find the best computer monitor for your needs, considering how many options are out there. But as soon as you decide you want one for gaming, things get even...
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Is it blasphemous to call a survival horror game “cozy”? Maybe so, but while thinking back on my playthrough of Crow Country , the word popped into my mind more than a few times. From the j...
Challengers, the tennis movie starring Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O'Connor, is not the first movie you'd think of for visual effects . But the film uses them to a surprising extent: One shot in...
Microsoft is leaning even more into AI after launching a new Copilot+ AI PC initiative earlier this year. It's a new set of standards for PCs with powerful neural processing units (NPUs), and it ...
https://www.engadget.com/engadget-podcast-microsoft-goes-copilot-crazy-113037153.html?src=rss
Manufacturers may hate independent repair stores, but Samsung and Apple appeared to accept the direction the political wind was blowing in. Sadly, Samsung’s warm-hearted embrace of third party ...
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You probably already know the benefits of cooking at home. It can help save you money, you can learn a new skill and it can often be healthier than eating out all the time. But regardless of if y...
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French for “under vacuum,” sous vide cooking involves immersing vacuum-sealed food in a temperature-controlled water bath until the food is cooked to your liking. It might sound intimidating,...
https://www.engadget.com/smart-sous-vide-guide-151821790.html?src=rss
OpenAI will not enforce any nondisparagement agreement former employees had signed and will remove the language from its exit paperwork altogether, the company told Bloomberg . Vox recently repo...
Meta and Google are offering Hollywood studios millions of dollars with the hope of striking licensing deals that could improve their models for AI-generated video, according to a new report in ...
Netflix’s mobile gaming lineup will soon have one more entry. Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit , the sequel to the 2021 Animal Crossing-esque Cozy Grove, will arrive on Android and iOS on June 25. The...
If you take in your Samsung device to an independent shop for repair, Samsung requires the store to send your name, contact information, device identifier, and the nature of your complaint to the...
A political consultant who admitted to using a deepfake of President Joe Biden's voice in a robocall scheme this year is facing several charges as well as a hefty fine from the Federal Communica...
Google said on Thursday it will build a fiber optic cable to connect Africa and Australia. Named Umoja (a Swahili word meaning “unity”), one end of the cable will start in Kenya and pass thr...
Devolver Digital is holding a livestream event on June 7 at 2PM ET to celebrate its 15th birthday and drop a bunch of “updates and release dates for upcoming titles.” It’s part of this yea...
Spotify’s Car Thing, a limited hardware “test” the company began shipping only three years ago , is about to bite the dust. The company wrote on Thursday that the device, which brought Spo...
Atari just announced that it has acquired the Intellivision brand , along with more than 200 games from Intellivision Entertainment LLC. This puts an end to the very first console war, as Atari a...
Activision has confirmed that the next Call of Duty game will be Black Ops 6. The publisher updated the website for the military shooter franchise to reveal the title, promising that “official...
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LG’s latest OLED smart TVs are on sale via Amazon. These are the C4 models and not the pricier G4 flagship displays, but they still boast plenty of bells and whistles for the discerning couch ...
The Justice Department and 30 state and district attorneys general are attempting to break up Ticketmaster owner Live Nation . They claim in an antitrust suit filed in the Southern District of ...
You can pick up a specced-out version of last year’s MacBook Pro M3 for cheaper than ever right now , at $1,800. This is a discount of $200 for Apple’s flagship laptop with 1TB of SSD storage...
South Korea is the latest country to support its local semiconductor industry in a significant fashion. It's trying to stay competitive with the likes of the US, China and Taiwan with the help o...
With small and stylish compact cameras like Fujifilm's X100 VI all the rage for influencers, Leica has decided to jump back into the game. The German brand just unveiled the $1,595 D-Lux 8 , a fo...
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The first crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner capsule still hasn’t launched more than two weeks after its originally scheduled liftoff date, and there's going to be at least another week of ...
Truecaller, a caller ID app that can block and record calls, has teamed up with Microsoft to give its users a way to create an AI assistant that uses their own voice . The company originally int...
Kobo isn’t the first on the color-ereader scene; Boox and Pocketbook have had color ereaders and tablets for years. Both of those companies make beautiful, premium devices that are highly capab...
Google's Password Manager now allows password sharing, albeit in a limited way with family members, Android Authority has reported. "With this new feature, you can now securely share your passwo...
A poker face is among the many qualities I was born without, so when I unwrapped the Anova Precision Cooker Nano about 14 months ago, I'm sure my visibly confused mug completely undermined my at...
Starliner, the Boeing-made vehicle intended to carry the next generation of astronauts, has had its launch scrubbed once again . NASA called off the maiden crewed launch after a number of key eng...
Multiple Microsoft services including Bing and Copilot, along with ChatGPT internet search and DuckDuckGo are down in Europe, Bleeping Computer reported. Bing.com and Copilot return blank pages ...
If you’ve contemplated getting a home theater projector recently, you’re not alone. Maybe your years-old, 55-inch TV has started to feel stale, or you want to take viewing parties outside to...
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Instant Pots had a huge moment a few years ago. Promising to be an all-in-one multi-cooker that can replace gadgets like a rice cooker, slow cooker, yogurt maker and more, the Instant Pot rose to...
https://www.engadget.com/instant-pot-guide-131534709.html?src=rss
OpenAI cast the actor of Sky's voice months before Sam Altman contacted Scarlett Johansson, and it had no intention of finding someone who sounded like her, according to The Washington Post . The...
OpenAI and News Corp, the owner of The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, The Sun, and more than a dozen other publishing brands, have struck a multi-year deal to display news from these publicati...