How to Dress Well As a Guy
By dressing well, guys can give off the appearance of being confident, attractive, put-together men that any firm would want to hire and any woman would want to date. One’s attire is one of the first...
View ArticleTalking Cars with Consumer Reports #28: The GM Recall Mess
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View ArticleLifelogging camera Autographer reaches out to Android users
Having a photojournalist follow us around all day could work out to be pretty expensive, which is why we liked the idea of Autographer’s neck-worn lifelogging camera – even if we didn’t appreciate the...
View ArticleAn afternoon with the Fire TV
We came away relatively impressed with the Fire TV during our brief hands-on. But we all know that units set up specifically for press demonstrations are hardly the best indicator of how a device will...
View ArticleHaving a chat with Cortana, Windows Phone’s new personal assistant
Anyone who’s played Halo, the iconic first-person shooter based 500 years in the future, knows where Microsoft came up with the name of Cortana, its new voice recognition program on Windows Phone 8.1....
View ArticleEngadget HD Podcast 392 – 4.2.14
If you have a dozen shows that always seem to overlap and you just can’t bear to miss any of them, then Verizon may have just the thing. Its FiOS Media Server has arrived under the name Quantum TV DVR...
View ArticleHulu hires Warner TV exec to lead original content, adds a slew of exclusive...
Are you caught up on all of Amazon’s and Microsoft’s news today? Good, because Hulu has a few announcements as well. First up, the streaming TV service has appointed a new head of content, Craig...
View ArticleTwitter now shows emoji characters on the web
There’s a good chance that some of your smartphone-toting friends use emoji to express themselves on Twitter — wouldn’t it be nice to see those icons while you’re surfing the web? As of today, you...
View ArticleNokia Lumia 630 and 635 bring Windows Phone 8.1 to budget seekers (hands-on)
Nokia may not be an official part of Microsoft yet — that should finally happen later this month, if you ask either company — but that doesn’t stop the phone maker from cranking out more devices at...
View ArticleThe Nokia Lumia 930 is a global version of the Icon (hands-on)
The Nokia Lumia Icon is a fantastic Windows Phone that comes with a bunch of top features that most Windows Phone users haven’t been able to enjoy until recently, but it had one critical flaw: it was...
View ArticleNokia shows off ‘MD-12′ Bluetooth speaker to match its new smartphones
It’s not all fun phones and games at Nokia’s Build shindig here in San Francisco. In addition to giving us a closer look at the new Lumia 930, 630 and 635, the company is showing off a Bluetooth...
View ArticleYahoo encrypts almost everything, says more security updates are on the way
After finding its name on an NSA target list, Yahoo understandably pledged to shore up its security efforts. The plan was to encrypt all information moving between its data centers while...
View ArticleDaily Roundup: Amazon Fire TV, Microsoft announces Windows Phone 8.1 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...
View ArticleNew Kinect for Windows arrives this summer
Amid the volley of announcements from Microsoft’s Build conference, is word that the new Kinect for Windows has a near-future release time-frame for both the hardware and its SDK. The desktop version...
View ArticleGoogle infuses Play Newsstand, Movies & TV and Keep apps for Android with new...
While Microsoft was busy announcing its updated mobile platform (among other things) today, Google spent its time pushing updates for its Play Newsstand, Movies & TV and Keep apps for Android....
View ArticleBlizzard takes a stab at mobile gaming, brings its free card game to the iPad
Blizzard hasn’t really had a presence in mobile gaming… not unless you think the Battle.net Authenticator is rip-roaring entertainment, anyway. However, the developer is giving the category an honest...
View ArticleIntel’s efficient 14nm processors to arrive on both enthusiast and entry systems
At IDF Shenzhen today, Intel briefly announced the 14nm successor to its budget 22nm Bay Trail processors. Dubbed Braswell, this new SoC architecture is mainly aimed at the likes of affordable Chrome...
View ArticleWindows apps can run on Xbox, but only the ones Microsoft approves of
When Microsoft announced earlier today that universal Windows apps could run on the Xbox One, it seemed pretty…self-explanatory. A developer could easily port any Windows or Windows Phone app over to...
View ArticleCanonical shutters Dropbox competitor Ubuntu One
Canonical announced plans today to shut down its Dropbox competitor Ubuntu One, a move that will also signal the end of its streaming music service. “If we offer a service, we want it to compete on a...
View ArticleSkype for Windows Phone 8.1 easily jumps from voice to video and works with...
Now that the Windows Phone 8.1 and Cortana announcements are out of the way, Skype’s spilling the details on its upcoming app refresh for Microsoft’s new mobile platform. The upgraded Skype app for WP...
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