Daily Roundup: Engadget’s 10th birthday, Apple announces CarPlay, and more!
You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the...
View ArticleHow to Survive the Death of Your Child
The death of a child is the most devastating loss. You mourn the loss of his or her life, potential and future. Your life is forever changed. But it’s not over. You can get through the grief and come...
View ArticleDish and Disney’s new deal cuts into ad skipping, allows for internet-only...
TV networks have long been embroiled in a legal battle with Dish over ad skipping built into the Hopper DVR, but the two sides are finally starting to lay down their arms — and there may be a few...
View ArticleGamefly tries adding movie rentals to its disc-by-mail service
Netflix may have flinched at the prospect of maintaining its disc-by-mail service, but GameFly seems to be embracing it. On April 4th, the company will begin shipping DVD and Blu-ray discs to...
View ArticleMust See HDTV for the week of March 3rd: True Detective, Almost Human and...
This week Netflix adds a new season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars to its streaming library, but we’re mostly anticipating Sunday night’s season finale of True Detective. Tonight Almost Human also wraps...
View ArticleMathematical Proof Reveals How To Make The Internet More Earthquake-Proof
One of the common myths about the internet is that it was originally designed during the Cold War to survive nuclear attack. Historians of the internet are quick to point out that this was not at all...
View ArticleMyst and SimCity enter the History of Electronic Games collection
Broderbund Software’s legacy is sure to live on through ports, sequels and source code, but what about the game developer’s behind-the-scenes history? Thankfully, it won’t be fading away any time...
View ArticleOUYA Everywhere is bringing the Android game platform to other devices
OUYA has plans to level up in the near future, and it has nothing to do with a new console. In fact, it has nothing to do with any console at all, as the startup has confirmed to Engadget that its...
View ArticleTwitter accidentally mass-resets user passwords, blames ‘system error’
Don’t freak out, your Twitter account wasn’t hacked. Well, probably. Many users were summarily locked out of their Twitter account on Monday evening, and were then sent an email requesting that they...
View ArticleFacebook in talks to buy drone company, could battle Google’s internet balloons
Facebook is in discussions to purchase Titan Aerospace, a company that makes solar-powered drones that can apparently stay up in the skies for up to five years at a time. According to Techcrunch’s...
View ArticleHeart Implants, 3-D-Printed to Order
Just right: An array of sensors is embedded in a material designed to fit a beating heart perfectly. It’s a poetic fact of biology that everyone’s heart is a slightly different size and shape. And yet...
View ArticleHarmony’s $150 Smart Keyboard remote comes to living rooms this month
Logitech is bringing a new entry to the lineup of Harmony remotes centered around its Hub. At a price of $150 this Harmony Smart Keyboard will retail for only twenty dollars more than the Harmony...
View ArticleSony says the PlayStation 4′s ‘Share’ button has been used 100 million times
Sony has a released a bunch of statistics covering the first four months of life of its new baby. Beyond regular sales figures (six million units so far, and nearly 14 million game sales), some of the...
View ArticleHow to Make Beignets
Beignet is French for fritter. It is a light and airy yeast pastry that is fried, covered in sweet powdered sugar and served hot, usually with coffee. It is believed that French colonists brought...
View ArticleHTG Explains: What Steam Family Sharing Is and How to Enable It
After months in beta, Valve has finally released Steam Family Sharing for everyone. Read on as we show you how to share your game library with friends and family (and highlight some of the limitations...
View ArticleXBMC looks to improve Android video playback with ‘Gotham’ beta
Version 13 of XBMC’s media center software, codenamed Gotham, is now ready for your official beta-testing pleasure. The foundation — which started the project for the Xbox and spawned apps like Plex...
View ArticleHow to Use OneDrive as Your Default Save Location on Windows 8.1
Windows 8.1 integrates OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive) everywhere, even on the desktop. You may want to save all your personal files to OneDrive so they’ll be accessible everywhere, but Windows doesn’t...
View ArticleRadioShack plans to close over 1,000 ‘underperforming’ stores
RadioShack’s Super Bowl ad showing how cool and hip it is may’ve come a little too late, as the retailer has today announced its intention to close up to 1,100 “underperforming stores” across the US....
View Article[GEEK SCHOOL] Gmail Guide 7: Use Gmail as a Task List
For today’s lesson, we’re going to cover how to use Gmail as a task list. Gmail integrates a simple to-do list into your account. Google Tasks allows you to creates lists of items, set due dates and...
View ArticleCone is a speaker that always plays the right song
What if you could turn on a speaker and instantly listen to the perfect song for that moment? That’s the idea behind Cone, a new web-connected music player that works like a radio of sorts — but only...
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