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Seven Must-Read Stories (Week Ending March 14, 2014)
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[GEEK SCHOOL] PC Maintenance 5: Protecting your Data
Imagine your home goes up in flames and all those memories and important moments are suddenly gone. You may mourn the loss of your house’s actual physical structure, but it’s the stuff that was inside...
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Esurance video appraisal lets a rep use your smartphone’s camera to assess...
This is one cool tool we hope to never use. Esurance’s new video appraisal feature for the insurer’s Android and iOS apps helps speed up the post-accident process significantly. Typically, you’re...
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Sprint’s latest prepaid plan offers 2.5GB of LTE data for $60
Sprint has slapped a fresh coat of paint on its prepaid mobile by rebranding Sprint As You Go to Sprint Prepaid and launching all-new plans. The carrier has more attractive pricing too, though there’s...
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EU law to require that all cellphones charge through a common standard
The EU successfully pushed for voluntary adoption of a cellphone charging standard a few years ago, and it’s now close to making that standard mandatory. The European Parliament has voted in favor of...
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Xbox One’s Skype app gets first refresh: contact filtering, longer chat logs...
Skype for Xbox One — or as we like to call it, SuperSkype Extreme — is getting its first update today. Tired of looking through offline contacts to find out if Larry’s online? This update allows for...
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WhatsApp’s VoIP feature for iOS revealed in leaked screenshots
Just a few weeks after WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum hinted that his Facebook-owned service will integrate voice communication features (VoIP, specifically) into its apps by this summer, we’re finally seeing...
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How to Build a Bench
A do-it-yourself bench for your home or garden can be a rewarding project for a beginner or expert woodworker, and anyone in between. There are many types to choose from, ranging from basic planks...
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Uber now insures drivers (and passengers) whenever its ridesharing app is...
Surge pricing and conflict over its presence (in some cities) aren’t the only issues facing Uber and other ridesharing services these days. Unanswered questions abound about who pays when an UberX...
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Here’s a much clearer look at Valve’s new Steam Controller
You see that image above? That’s the new Steam Controller, headed to SteamOS. Sound familiar? That’s because this is the second iteration of the Steam Controller first unveiled last year. Astute...
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Home theater deals of the week: 03.14.14
With the NCAA Tournament approaching next week, it may be time to consider a purchase for the living room. Don’t fret if you’re not into college basketball; we’ve included something for everyone in...
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Reminder: Vote for the 2013 Engadget Awards!
Engadget readers are nothing if not opinionated, which is why we open up the Engadget Awards for your voting each year. We solicited your picks for the best products of 2013, narrowed them down to the...
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Your bank will pay Microsoft to keep running its ATMs
Believe it or not, roughly 95 percent of ATMs in the world are still running Windows XP — and that’s about to become an expensive problem. Machine designer NCR says that only a third of banks will...
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For the Web’s Birthday, a Look Back
An early mention of the World Wide Web in our magazine was in an ad for a book called “The Whole Internet User’s Guide & Catalog.” The Web turned 25 this week, marking a quarter century since Tim...
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Geek Trivia: The First European Country To Adopt The Table Fork Was?
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Supermarket overload—too many chocies | Consumer Reports
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Complicated car controls | Consumer Reports
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Engadget Podcast 388 – 3.14.14
This week’s podcast begins with some behind the scenes perspective of SXSW before Ben’s allowed to get all Titanfall on us. That said, there’s a melange of topics under discussion, from the Game of...
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Google Maps for Android now tells you about upcoming events
Google wants to make sure that dance card of yours stays full. Rather than just showing you the best way to get to a new hot spot in town, today’s Maps update for Android tells you what events are...
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Google Wallet’s tap-to-pay feature will require Android 4.4 KitKat starting...
It’s time to upgrade that old phone you’ve been using for Google Wallet payments at the local store. Google is now telling Android users that they’ll have to run KitKat to use Wallet’s tap-to-pay...
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