Got wood? Moto Maker does and it’ll cost you $100 extra
Motorola promised us Moto X’s made of wood many moons ago, and the day has finally arrived. Folks who like their electronics built of more… sustainable materials can head on over to the Moto Maker...
View ArticleMeta Pro promises Tony Stark-style computing with a $3,000 pair of sunglasses
As opposed to the rudimentary capabilities of the current king of wearables, Google Glass, a company called Meta is building a full-fledged augmented reality computing platform into a pair of aviator...
View ArticleStudy Shows Google’s Dominance of Online Advertising
Analysis of the mobile Web browsing habits of over three million people has revealed previously unseen patterns in how the major advertising companies carve up the Internet. Among the findings of a...
View Article1-Femtojoule Optical Interconnect Paves the Way for Low-Power, High...
Moore’s law is the observation that the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles every two years or so. When Gordon Moore spelt out his eponymous law in 1965, the numbers involved were...
View ArticleWhy is it Still so Difficult to Install OS X on PCs?
Macs switched over to Intel processors years ago, but it is still a huge headache to run OS X on a PC. Read on as we explore the technical hurdles in installing Apple’s OS on a PC framework. Today’s...
View ArticleSoundrop’s social music listening comes to Android
Soundrop’s communal listening experience is at last available on Android. As with the iOS app, music lovers can sign into a paid Deezer or Spotify account and join rooms with themed playlists; from...
View ArticleRelightable Dome creates interactive images where you control the light source
Stitching together a bunch of images to create a single picture is hardly a new concept. Panoramas are old hat, and Google is even using 360-degree photos to help guide your shopping decisions. But a...
View ArticleDropbox for Android now lets you share folders with friends
Dropbox members no longer have to wait until they’re at a desktop to share a whole folder. An updated Dropbox for Android lets users both invite others to shared folders and manage the relevant...
View ArticleMailbox for iOS now handles your iCloud or Yahoo email account
Mailbox has only handled Gmail since launch, but compulsive email checkers finally have a few more account options thanks to an update. The iOS app now supports both iCloud addresses (including me.com...
View ArticleTech sector CEOs meet with Obama and Biden to demand NSA reform
It’s not been a particularly good year for the National Security Agency, what with Edward Snowden revealing how pervasive its domestic surveillance is, and the outrage and concern those revelations...
View ArticleThe Desolation of Smaug shows Peter Jackson still hasn’t perfected HFR
Peter Jackson’s introduction of high frame-rates (HFR) in Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey caused him an unexpected headache: many filmgoers hated the new tech. Those folks found that the hyper-realistic...
View ArticleHow to Avoid Internet Dating Scams
For most of us, finding love on the internet can be a gift from heaven. For others, however, it can be a life-ruining decision – leaving us penniless, heartbroken and with many more problems heading...
View ArticleOpera Max beta compresses most of the data going through your Android device
Opera’s mobile browsers are quite popular because of their ability to compress data, but it’s unfortunately been limited to just that — the browser itself. This becomes less and less useful as...
View ArticleDaily Roundup: Samsung’s sound lab, the gadgets of 2013, HFR movies 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 ArticleBLU unveils two budget Android phones with 3G on more North American carriers
BLU Products’ unlocked smartphones have only been truly useful in North America when using bigger carriers like AT&T and Rogers, but the company is giving us a few more choices today. Its new...
View ArticleLG’s 21.5-inch Chromebase all-in-one puts ChromeOS on the desktop
Besides Samsung’s Chromebox series ChromeOS has appeared mostly on laptops, but now LG is ready to put its new Chromebase up against Apple’s iMac and Windows-based all-in-one desktop PCs. According to...
View ArticleChristmas music generator
Need a holiday time-waster to finish out the work day? Make some music with the Festive Funk Machine, created by the online printing company Moo. Turn the robots on and off to construct your own song....
View ArticleXbox 360 Time Warner Cable app finally gets video-on-demand
It’s been a long wait for Xbox 360-faithful wanting Time Warner Cable video-on-demand through their console, but the feature has finally arrived with some 5,000 promised titles (there’s good news for...
View ArticleMac and iOS users can now gift iBooks
Your chances of buying tangible gifts for the holidays may be fading fast, but your digital options are now wider than ever. Apple has just enabled full gift support on the iBookstore for both iOS and...
View ArticleKindle for Android adds Collections to help organize your e-library
If you’ve bought quite a library of Kindle books for yourself, you might have a chore scrolling through the lot to find the one you want. Thankfully for Android users, you can now organize your...
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