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Leaving Las Vegas: Farewell to CES 2014
We came. We saw. We got punched in the head. Some of Engadget’s New York-based editors took longer to get to Las Vegas than those traveling in from Hong Kong or Tokyo, thanks to winter storms that...
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How would you change Motorola’s Droid RAZR M?
Before it became the cuddly face of Google’s handset business, Motorola had a knack of knocking out sweet hardware at low prices. The RAZR M, for instance, combined a svelte body, 4.3-inch display and...
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Inexpensive Brain Scans Could Catch Concussions
Danger within: A brain map identifies injuries from a concussion. Kelly Gee knows all too well the devastating effects of concussion. A former minor-league hockey player, he says that repeated...
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Printed Eye Cells Could Help Treat Blindness
Eyeball ink: A close-up image from a high-speed camera shows a single droplet being expelled from an ink-jet printer. Ink-jet printing technology could be a way to build new tissue meant to restore...
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Mac Pro back on sale in Europe following previous ban
EU bureaucrats famously revoked their ban on ugly fruit, but they never showed such leniency to Apple. The older Mac Pro breached rules requiring extra shielding on fans and electrical ports and as a...
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Rumored Nokia Normandy prototype surfaces on Twitter, reveals little
That thing up there? Word on the street (that is, Twitter) is that it’s an engineering prototype of the Nokia Normandy, a low-end Android device due sometime in 2014. The name has been floating around...
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How to Get Rid of Crickets
Crickets ring in summertime with their characteristic singing, and in small numbers they are quite harmless. When they start reproducing inside the house, however, they can damage paper products,...
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Sprint abandons its ‘One Up’ early upgrade plan after just a few months
It appears Sprint’s answer to T-Mobile’s UnCarrier campaign hasn’t been quite the success the company hoped it would be. Less than four months after it announced its “One Up” early upgrade plan, Big...
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Beginner Geek: How to Configure Your Router
If you have Internet access, you probably have a router — and your router has its own settings screens full of options. Everyone should know how to use their router’s web interface, if only to...
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Early benchmarks suggest NVIDIA’s new Tegra chip outperforms Apple and Qualcomm
The graph above comes courtesy of Tom’s Hardware and, whichever way you look it, it suggests NVIDIA is onto a good thing. The company’s recently announced Tegra K1 processor combines a handful of ARM...
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Uber taxi vandalized in France despite new law favoring regular cab drivers
Though a new French law gives cabs there a 15 minute head start against private companies like Uber and LeCab, taxi drivers are far from done protesting. Things may have just taken a violent turn, as...
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4 Ways to Run Android on Your PC and Make Your Own “Dual OS” System
Intel is now interested in pushing “Dual OS” PCs — devices with both Windows 8 and Android on them. But you don’t have to buy a new PC to do this — you can run Android apps and even the Android...
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SimCity getting offline mode ‘soon,’ aims to fix long-broken relaunch
EA’s reboot of SimCity remains in a state of disarray, and the latest effort to correct the situation is an upcoming offline mode for the otherwise always-online game. This is a pretty major change...
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GameFace Mark IV: The other VR headset at CES 2014 (hands-on)
After all the time we’ve spent with Oculus VR’s latest Crystal Cove prototype this week — our first Best of CES award winner! — you might think we’re all VR’d out. You’d be wrong, and when the folks...
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UK carrier O2 dropping its mobile wallet service after less than two years
O2 UK’s carrier-independent Money mobile wallet may have proven a little too ambitious. The network is shutting down the service on March 31st so that it can investigate “new and better ways” to...
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Sprint abandons its ‘One Up’ early upgrade plan after just a few months (update)
It appears Sprint’s answer to T-Mobile’s UnCarrier campaign hasn’t been quite the success the company hoped it would be. Less than four months after it announced its “One Up” early upgrade plan, Big...
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How to Recognize Category C Bioterrorism Agents
According to the CDC, category C bioterrorism agents are the “third highest priority agents include emerging pathogens that could be engineered for mass dissemination in the future because of...
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EU wants to know if US studios’ TV deals restrict pan-European viewing
Many European TV aficionados are all too familiar with US content exclusives; you can’t watch that hit American movie unless you’re with the right provider. However, the European Commission is...
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Samsung Galaxy Note 3 begins Android 4.4 KitKat rollout in Poland
Sometimes, even the most massive of updates have humble beginnings. This is the case with the Samsung Galaxy Note 3, a device that offered Android 4.3 Jelly Bean upon its debut. We all figured it was...
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Facebook increases focus on ‘conversations’ with purchase of Branch and Potluck
Facebook grew its ranks by 10 New Yorkers today, following an agreement to acquire Branch. Josh Miller and Cemre Gngr created the company in 2012 with financial support from Twitter co-founders Ev...
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