How to Make Mint Lip Balm in the Microwave
Mint is a great flavor for lip balm, as it’s refreshing, cooling and tasty. A simple lip balm containing mint can be made at home with just a few simple materials. Provided you have a microwave, it...
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Geek Trivia: What Food Is Actually Made From Repurposed Brewer’s Yeast?
What Food Is Actually Made From Repurposed Brewer’s Yeast? Escamoles Witchetty Grub Fugu Vegemite Think you know the answer? Taken from: Geek Trivia: What Food Is Actually Made From Repurposed...
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What Would Happen if You Stopped Drinking Water?
There is no doubt that drinking enough water every day is important, but what happens if you do not get enough, or are unable to drink any water at all? How soon would you begin noticing the effects...
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Microsoft aims to power up PC and mobile games with DirectX 12
The time for teasing is over. Today at GDC, Microsoft pulled back the curtain on DirectX 12, a shiny new edition of its venerable graphics APIs that some lucky developers can start mucking around with...
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castAR’s vision of immersive gaming gets closer to final production
Five months ago, Technical Illusions gained over a million dollars in funding thanks to a highly successful Kickstarter campaign for castAR, a projected augmented reality project that company founders...
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Xprize wants to fund a TED Talk given by artificial intelligence, and you can...
Xprize is known for its ambition. The outfit, with the help of some big name (and deep pocketed) partners, has launched initiatives to spur Star Trek-like tricorder development and even get private...
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SEC investigation of Bitcoin-based stock sale could lead to broader regulation
In July of last year gambling site SatoshiDice.com was sold by its creator for 126,315 BTC (Bitcoins) which was roughly $11.5 million at the time. The deal, which was executed on the Romania-based...
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The NSA may release its own transparency reports
The NSA has been on the offensive lately, first claiming that Google, Facebook and others are fully aware of its data-collecting practices, and now hinting that it’ll nip criticism in the bud by...
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T-Mobile to offer the Samsung Galaxy S5 for no money down, pre-orders begin...
Looks like the embargo is officially up on Samsung Galaxy S5 pricing. After AT&T revealed earlier today that it’ll sell the new flagship phone for $200 on-contract, T-Mobile chimed in to say it...
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Test out easier syncing and new customizations in the latest Firefox beta
If you’ve been frustrated with Firefox Sync, this is for you: a new beta release of Mozilla’s browser looks to simplify the process of saving settings across multiple devices. Expect an...
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Orange shares all its call data with France’s intelligence agency, according...
Another day, another round of troubling surveillance news. In a twist, though, today’s nugget has less to do with the US or the NSA but rather, France’s central intelligence agency, the DGSE....
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Recommended from Around the Web (Week Ending March 21, 2014)
The Making of MythsA software developer discusses how fallacies in his field form and ossify, and how that limits our imagination of what software can do.—Brian Bergstein, deputy editor Silicon...
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Why are You Unable to Uninstall Multiple Programs Simultaneously in Windows?
Suppose you have a small horde of programs you want to uninstall on your Windows system, but Windows will only let you uninstall them one at a time. Why is that? What is stopping you from uninstalling...
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GarageBand on Mac now lets you export songs as MP3s… again
As meaningful as GarageBand’s mobile life is to Apple, the tune-making app is still considered a valuable piece of real estate on the desktop. However, last year GarageBand for Mac lost MP3 exporting...
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Microsoft’s Blink Windows Phone app gets a redesign, lots of new features
The Blink app for Windows Phone 8 is already pretty good, and it’s about to get even better. Microsoft Research has released a new version of its photography application, complete with a fresh look...
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Comcast’s first transparency report reveals over 25,000 government data requests
Comcast must not want to feel left out as telcos begin publishing regular government data request statistics — the cable giant has just posted its first transparency report. The document reveals that...
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Twitter now shows you video previews inside its mobile apps
Checking out a linked video from within Twitter’s official mobile apps is frequently a clumsy process, but it’s about to get a lot smoother. The social network has started rolling out simple in-line...
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Apple may improve your iPhone’s battery life by understanding your habits
Battery-saving software on a phone tends to have all the subtlety of a sledgehammer — it either waits until you’re low on power to do anything, or limits functionality at all times. Apple may...
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Netflix’s Reed Hastings calls out weak net neutrality rules, ‘reluctantly’...
Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix has finally chimed in with his own statement about net neutrality and the deal his company struck with Comcast. As written in a blog post, the traditional standards...
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Daily Roundup: 2013 Engadget Readers’ Choice Awards, NSA transparency reports...
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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