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How would you change’s Sony’s NEX-5R?
Most camera geeks agree that Sony needed to make up for the NEX-F3, and that it did so with style by producing the NEX-5R. When we placed this in the hands of our in-house camera guru, he was...
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Latest Apple TV rumors have it teaming up with Comcast for streaming
Rumors Apple will launch a new TV-connected device/service seemingly never die, and now the Wall Street Journal reports it’s in talks with Comcast (and that rumored discussions with Time Warner Cable...
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UK government closes tax loophole on digital media, could mean the end of the...
Buried within the latest budget plan for the UK, Chancellor George Osborne announced new laws that would ensure internet downloads from the likes of iTunes, Google Play Amazon and game networks would...
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Academics Spy Weaknesses in Bitcoin’s Foundations
One thing cannot be disputed about the person (or persons) responsible for creating Bitcoin: they were skilled in math, and expert at coding. Five years after the Bitcoin software was first released,...
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How Advanced Mobile Networks Could Power Themselves
A dirty secret of mobile communications is that it uses lots of electricity. It’s also sometimes powered by giant tanks of diesel fuel, especially in poor countries. But new research shows that it’s...
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Asian regulators push Microsoft’s Nokia purchase back until April
Despite receiving all of the necessary confirmations in the US and Europe, Microsoft will need to wait a little longer than expected to finalize its $7.45 billion acquisition of Nokia. Originally...
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Why is There a Useless Games Folder in Windows 7′s Start Menu?
Microsoft’s Games Explorer — also known as the Games folder — is only a single click away every time you open Windows 7′s Start menu. It’s Microsoft’s interface to your PC games, but not every game...
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MIT pioneers ‘living materials’ for self-aware chairs
If Moya, Species 8472 and the White Star are any indication, then science fiction has always had a love affair with the idea of living spaceships crafted from genetically engineered material. We’re...
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The Digital Locker Hollywood Wants You To Use: UltraViolet Explained
UltraViolet is a “digital locker” for your movies designed by the big movie studios. It’s a response to iTunes — studios don’t want all their customers using iTunes with Apple being the single company...
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Harmonix’s ‘Fantasia’ gets a multiplayer mode, new songs
Harmonix is letting us in on a few more details about its upcoming game Fantasia: Music Evolved. During a demo last week at GDC the company showed us a new discovery realm of the game called “The...
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Dixons and Carphone Warehouse in talks to merge their 3,000 UK stores
Dixons is one of the last tech stores left on the UK’s high street, but it’s not content to just survive while rivals die off. Instead, the outfit has confirmed that it’s been in behind-the-scenes...
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[GEEK SCHOOL] SysInternals Pro 1: What Are the SysInternals Tools and How Do...
This How-To Geek School series will teach you how to use SysInternals tools like a pro, so your geek cred will never be in question. Not that we are questioning your geek skills. You do use...
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We’re liveblogging HTC’s ‘all new One’ event tomorrow at 11AM ET!
Given the extensive number of leaks we’ve seen of HTC’s next-generation flagship smartphone, we wouldn’t blame you if you thought that the latest and greatest out of Taiwan was already official and...
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Google’s Photowall for Chromecast lets you doodle on photos, beam them to...
Photowall for Chromecast is one of those rare official Google apps that makes its debut on iOS instead of Android. In fact, we can’t even say for sure it’ll be coming to Mountain View’s mobile OS, but...
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Sony’s mirrorless A3500 looks like a rebadged A3000 with a new lens
According to a listing on its Australian site, Sony’s just launched the A3500 mirrorless camera, but don’t get too excited yet. It seems to be a mild re-working of the A3000 released just six months...
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NSA spied on Huawei founder’s emails to implicate him as a Communist Party...
Ren Zhengfei might seem to us like a man of mystery; a quintessential “elusive figure” about whom we know very little beyond the facts that he founded Huawei and has had some (partly refuted)...
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How to Add an Email Address to the Safe Senders List in Outlook 2013
Do you find that your friends’ and relatives’ emails are getting sent to your Spam folder instead of your Inbox? Outlook provides a Safe Senders list that allows you to specify which email addresses...
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iTunes Radio now streams the news, thanks to NPR
It’s been nearly a year since Apple announced its plans to join Spotify, Rdio and Pandora as a music streaming service provider. However, while beats, melodies and harmony are great, some would say...
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Engadget Eurocast 057 – 3.24.14
The Eurocast is back after a brief hiatus and this week’s festivities are hosted by Matt Brian and Steve Dent. Google’s just announced its Android Wear platform and that means a slew of new wearables...
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Panasonic’s HX-A500 wearable action cam serves up 4K video at 25fps
If you don’t mind your wearable action cam being tethered to a separate unit for wrangling controls, Panasonic’s HX-A500 offers 4K video capture in return. The company touts the camera as the “world’s...
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