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Vintage brass figurine round-up
I never thought I’d say it, but I’m kind of getting into brass. Metallic anything is in style right now, and in my cave of a house with dark woodwork, a little sheen is nice. Yesterday I amused myself...
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Geek Trivia: What Did You Have To Defeat In The Super Secret Level Of...
What Did You Have To Defeat In The Super Secret Level Of Nintendo’s Hit Star Fox? Mega Man A Giant SEGA Genesis A Slot Machine The Death Star Think you know the answer? Link to original: Geek...
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Daily Roundup: Dell Venue 8 Pro tablet review, 3D printed speakers, Windows...
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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Clack-Clack FACE gives a typewriter new life as a text-based portrait painter
There’s something oddly romantic about taking a piece of archaic technology and giving it new life as a work of 21st century art. Take the Royal Empress typewriter you see above. This particular model...
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How to Apply Everyday Makeup
Do you want to just have an easy, everyday makeup routine? Look no further but here! Follow the steps below to achieve this great look! Edit Steps Wipe off any dirt, oil, impurities, etc. before...
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Einstein’s Rings and the Fabric of Space
Did you know that the gravitational force of a galaxy is powerful enough to distort the fabric of the space around it? Would you be surprised to learn that this gravitational effect is very useful for...
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Ex-Oppo exec reveals new company OnePlus, plans to make ‘the perfect smartphone’
When Pete Lau resigned as VP of Chinese electronics maker Oppo, it was accompanied by rumors that he was going to build his own tech company. Well, whoever spread those rumors spoke the truth, because...
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Plex Media Server arrives on Windows Phone 8, free for Nokia devices for the...
While Plex has been busy updating its media server software for iOS and Android, it’s sadly neglected Microsoft’s mobile OS since its debut on Windows Phone 7 nearly two years ago. That changes today...
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The Geopolitics of Geoengineering
Illustration by McKibillo More than a decade ago, Paul Crutzen, who won the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his research on the destruction of stratospheric ozone, popularized the term...
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Facebook’s Two Faces
Last spring, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg invested in an impressive domain name: internet.org. Then, in August, he posted a video featuring snippets of John F. Kennedy’s “Strategy of Peace” speech...
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Too Much Information
Pregnant women and their partners can already peer at an unborn child’s chromosomes: with amniocentesis, they can learn about the presence or, more likely, absence of large-scale genetic defects,...
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Some GMO Crops Are on the Same Side as Their Opponents
Mark Lynas As a former anti-GMO activist, I have bitter experience of the unpleasantly polarized debate about the merits of GMOs. But that experience makes me see how we might respond to people’s...
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Robots Are Becoming Ready To Work Among Us
Julie Shah Traditionally, robots were designed to work separately from people. That is starting to change as robots begin working alongside humans to courier medicine in hospitals and assemble complex...
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Brain-Inspired Chips Will Allow Smartphones to Understand Us
M. Anthony Lewis A modern smartphone is the most powerful information portal the world has known, integrating a traditional telephone with a powerful Internet-connected computer capable of navigating,...
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GMOs Are Green
I grew up on in the 1970s. It had been a sort of commune, and after my parents bought the property, the hippies stayed on as farm workers and the place retained the style of the counterculture....
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Selling Privacy Short
Modern surveillance technologies now allow organizations to monitor people’s movements to a degree previously imagined only in fiction. Aircraft that can spot a car or person 30,000 feet below have...
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Testing a GM Potato in Ireland
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Researcher Ewen Mullins is testing potatoes that are engineered to resist blight in Ireland. Originally posted here: Testing a GM Potato in Ireland
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Why We Do What We Do
Much of our health and happiness is rooted in our own behaviors: whether we exercise and eat right, whether we make choices as optimists or as pessimists, whether we stay motivated to reach our goals...
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LG launching its first 4K monitor in January with 31-inch ultra-widescreen panel
LG’s monitor division has been zigging recently while it’s competitors zagged, having released a string of 21:9 ultra-widescreen models over the last couple of years. It’s now made the same...
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Samsung’s Galaxy GamePad brings precision Android controls to Europe first
Well, that took awhile. Remember the first-party gamepad Samsung trotted out at the Galaxy S4 unveiling? It’s finally ready for release — in Europe. The months of extra development don’t seem wasted,...
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