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Geek Trivia: Which Classic Board Game Was Originally Paper Based?
Which Classic Board Game Was Originally Paper Based? Monopoly Checkers Trivial Pursuit Battleship Think you know the answer? View this article: Geek Trivia: Which Classic Board Game Was Originally...
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How the Elements on the Periodic Table got Their Names
When you look at the names on the Periodic Table of Elements, you will no doubt wonder how some of those elements got their names. It turns out the names come from a wondrous variety of sources such...
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BlackBerry 10 finally gets its own Microsoft OneDrive app
If you worship at the BlackBerry altar and are in dire need of a cloud storage service that isn’t Dropbox, Box, or Mega, today’s your lucky day. Now you can dump your files in Microsoft’s OneDrive by...
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The Bitcoin drama continues: another exchange shuts down, while Overstock...
It’s been one big roller coaster ride for Bitcoin these past few weeks, with the Mt. Gox exchange shutting down and filing for bankruptcy following a large-scale hack, not to mention questions about...
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PC shipments faced their steepest-ever drop in 2013
We hate to say it, but the era of near-constant PC industry growth might be over. IDC estimates that computer shipments fell by 9.8 percent in 2013, representing the steepest drop ever recorded. There...
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Microsoft’s got a wireless display fix in the works for Surface users
Sure, the Surface 2 supports Miracast, giving you the power to beam the contents of your screen wirelessly to some other, larger display. But not everyone has a compatible HDTV, which leaves us with...
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Rival cycle: Beats Music VP of product reportedly headed to Spotify
It looks like Beats Music’s uphill battle to upstage the incumbent streaming services just took a hit. CNET reports that Fredric Vinna, product lead and one of the outfit’s early creators (alongside...
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Watching for a Crimean Cyberwar Crisis
Russia’s takeover of the Crimean peninsula has been accompanied by a elements of an information-control campaign: telecom cables connecting that region to the rest of Ukraine have been severed, and...
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What is the Fastest Way to Clear the Cache and Cookies in Google Chrome?
Whether you are a developer or just someone who likes to keep things cleaned up, you have better things to do than spend all your time clearing out the cache and cookies the ‘hard way’. Is there a...
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Dish wins all the wireless spectrum in the FCC’s latest auction
Dish has a seemingly insatiable appetite for wireless spectrum, and it’s willing to spend a lot of cash to get its fill. Need proof? The FCC has just confirmed (PDF) that Dish bought all of the...
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Evernote for Windows gets Skitch-like annotation tools
If you use Evernote religiously, chances are you’ve got more than a few snapshots and screen captures saved. To make it easier to edit and annotate those photos, Evernote has fully absorbed Skitch’s...
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What gadgets were you rocking 10 years ago?
Ten years ago, the internet was introduced to a new tech blog called Engadget. The world was a much different place. Smartphones as we know them didn’t exist and almost everyone had a flip phone. The...
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Compact ‘Stubilizer’ could smooth out your GoPro footage
Though GoPro cameras excel at capturing your insane escapades, the resulting shaky footage is not what we’d call production-ready. Now an inventor named Stuart Smith is looking to smooth things out...
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Department of Justice comes out against Aereo’s TV streaming in Supreme Court...
It’s never a good idea to make an enemy of the federal government, and it appears that Aereo now finds itself in just that predicament. On Monday, the US Department of Justice came out in favor of the...
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Comcast’s internet access program for low-income families will continue...
Comcast’s Internet Essentials program was originally supposed to wind down this June, roughly three years after its launch in the wake of the NBC merger. However, the company has had a lot of success...
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Daily Roundup: Apple CarPlay hands-on, G Pro 2 review 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...
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How to Make an Origami Bunny Head
Origami bunny heads can add a burst of personality and cuteness to your room. What’s more, they’re bunnies that don’t need care and feeding, so make as many as you like, put them all over the place...
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Yahoo will stop users logging into its services with Google and Facebook...
In an effort to get you to return to that Yahoo ID from back in the day, Yahoo says it’ll be phasing out the ability to login through Google and Facebook accounts. The company says this will allow it...
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Facebook Messenger arrives for Windows Phone sans voice features
Microsoft was clearly being cautious when it said Facebook Messenger would be available for Windows Phone within a few weeks of Mobile World Congress — it’s already here, just over a week later. The...
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Xbox One’s pre-Titanfall multiplayer update goes live today: here’s...
We’ve already touched on what you could expect from the Xbox One’s next update, but now it’s here. Alongside those multiplayer improvements (easier invites, chat upgrades), Twitch TV live-streaming is...
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