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Spotify reportedly planning free, ad-supported mobile streaming
If you can’t bring yourself to shell out $10 a month for the privilege of enjoying your Spotify playlist on the go, we have good news for you: the company is apparently developing a free version of...
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HP adds Leap Motion control to select PCs just in time for the holidays
HP’s adding more Leap Motion to its PC arsenal. After refreshing its Envy 17 with inbuilt Leap Motion control, HP’s now expanding that partnership to select products in its desktop and all-in-one...
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Dolby demos new imaging tech that pushes more light to your television (eyes-on)
You may think your current HDTV is bright enough, but Dolby disagrees. The company, which is known more for its audio tech than its imaging capabilities, has been putting a lot of effort into...
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Visualized: Saturn’s relentless "hexagon" storm
This isn’t the first we’ve seen of Saturn’s six-sided jet stream, but NASA’s calling the GIF after the break “the first hexagon movie of its kind.” The “movie” is made from a compilation of images...
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SolarCity, Using Tesla Batteries, Aims to Bring Solar Power to the Masses
Today, SolarCity—a company that’s grown quickly by installing solar panels for free and charging customers for the solar power—announced a new business that will extend that model to providing...
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How to Read a Fingering Chart
A fingering chart for the danso, a bamboo flute-like instrument. Q: How do you know that a saxophone player is intelligent?A: When they understand the whole fingering chart, except for the L.th and...
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How Risky Is It to Run a Home Server Secured Behind SSH?
When you need to open something on your home network to the greater internet, is an SSH tunnel a secure enough way to to do it? Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of...
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Daily Roundup: AT&T’s new mobile plans, Olloclip debuts new lens, audio...
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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Apple says 74 percent of App Store users are running iOS 7
Two can play the OS statistics game, it seems. Just a couple of days after Google noted that 1.1 percent of Android devices visiting Google Play are running KitKat, Apple has revealed that 74 percent...
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Verizon’s FiOS Mobile app adds Encore, Starz and more for live-streaming...
Verizon’s FiOS mobile apps for Android and iOS are about to get significantly more appealing, as the carrier has just added 16 additional channels for out-of-home live streaming. When this feature...
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Google voice search on Android and iOS now speaks French, German and Japanese
To date, Google’s mobile voice search has been limited to English speakers — not very convenient if you’re looking for coffee in Cologne. Thankfully, its vocabulary is expanding today. The Google...
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Lumus reveals classy two-tone Glass competitor with in-lens display
Lumus is a heads up display (HUD) manufacturer better known for its military-grade products, some of which have been deployed in US Air Force F-16 and A-10 helmets. Its latest effort, the DK-40 dev...
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Google Glass Court Case Shows Limits of Its Smarts
Google’s wearable computer, Glass, made its first metaphorical court appearance Tuesday when Californian Cecilia Abadie pleaded not guilty to a traffic citation for speeding whilst wearing the...
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A New Tool Plays Mind Reader With Your Passwords
Not sure if “password1234” is the best password to keep intruders out of your e-mail account? A new online tool from Microsoft Research called Telepathwords can help you figure it out by guessing...
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How to Create Holiday Snowmen out of Socks
The holidays are a great time to create your own decorations, especially when you have someone to do it with. These cute snowmen decorations are inexpensive while easy and fun to make. Edit Steps...
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DARPA tests ground-based prototype of its folding space telescope (video)
Researchers want higher-resolution images of the Earth from space, but glass-based telescopes won’t always be up to the job; eventually, the necessary hardware will be too bulky to lift into orbit....
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Palette’s modular controller brings dials and sliders to your laptop (hands-on)
Palette co-founder Calvin Chu has a problem with how people work. “Creative professionals spend so much of their time on the computer, and at the moment, they still use a very generic...
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CyanogenMod 11 M1 release arrives early for (most) Nexus phones and tablets
Having just wrapped up development on its Android Jelly Bean-based 10.2 software, the CyanogenMod team is already pushing out a “Milestone 1″ release of the upcoming Android 4.4 KitKat-based version...
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Twitter’s new targeted advertising hooks up with your browsing history
After testing it out for six months, Twitter’s now rolled out changes that will tie its ads with information picked up from web browser cookies. Advertisers will be able to share browser-related...
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Navy launches a drone from a submarine’s torpedo tube
We can think of few sights more ominous than watching an unmanned aerial vehicle emerging from an egg-like canister in the middle of the ocean, but that may well be the future of military...
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