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Beats Music to reach Windows Phone listeners on January 24th
Beats Music launched with a lot of fanfare today, but you may have noticed that its promised Windows Phone client is missing. What happened? As it turns out, the app is just fashionably late — Beats’...
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How to Console an Upset Friend
Consoling an upset friend can be tricky. When you’re trying to offer comfort, you may feel like you’re constantly putting your foot in your mouth and making things worse. So, how do you console an...
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Apple brings iBooks and iTunes U educational tools to more than 50 new countries
It’s no secret that Apple likes its products to be a big part of the educational sector, not just in the US, but all across the world. With that in mind, the Cupertino-based outfit today is broadening...
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Pinterest recipe search makes the joy of cooking easy to pin down
The next time you’re searching for that perfect recipe to please your finicky friends’ ever-evolving dietary needs (you know, the vegan today/paleo tomorrow types), you won’t have to go further than...
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Geek Trivia: To Halt An Editing War, Wikipedia Had To Ban All IP Addresses...
To Halt An Editing War, Wikipedia Had To Ban All IP Addresses Belonging To? The U.S. Congress The NSA The RIAA George Clooney’s Publicist Think you know the answer? See original article: Geek Trivia:...
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How to Test Your Internet Speed from the Command Line
Anybody who wants to test their connection speed can easily do so from a speed test web site — but that isn’t very geeky. Here’s how to do a test from the terminal prompt instead. Note: If you are...
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Nokia Lumia 1320 review: an oversized phone that struggles to stand out
It’s not too often we can legitimately say a device is in a league of its own, yet that’s the only way we can describe Nokia’s new low-end smartphone, the Lumia 1320. With a 6-inch screen, it arrives...
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This headset uses sensors and psychology to control gamer rage
Designer Sam Matson has a solution to gamer rage that doesn’t involve throwing things at your screen. Introducing Immersion, a headset that monitors your heart rate and increases a game’s difficulty...
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Why is There a Big Difference Between ‘Size’ and ‘Size on Disk’?
Most of the time, the values for ‘Size’ and ‘Size on disk’ will be very close to matching when checking a folder or file’s size, but what if there is a huge discrepancy between the two? Today’s...
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Can Video Games Make You Smarter?
Video games are definitely fun to play, but is that the only ‘benefit’ a person can receive from them? The topic has been ‘hotly debated’ over the years and now we have a definitive answer to the...
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MIT’s new transparent screen may lead to cheap heads-up displays
Transparent screens just aren’t very practical these days — bigger models are frequently expensive and bulky, while smaller heads-up displays tend to have very narrow viewing angles. However, MIT may...
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Verizon plan lets you send unlimited international texts for $5 per month
If you like to text friends and family overseas, you know that it can be expensive — US carriers frequently charge either per text or for blocks of messages that aren’t always enough. Pricing won’t be...
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Amazon reportedly considering live TV channels for new pay-TV service
If the rumors surrounding Amazon’s forthcoming set-top box are any indication, the company’s betting big on online video delivery. It’s a move Amazon may even be hinting at with its latest recruitment...
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Meizu teases three MX4G smartphones with giant screens
Meizu clearly isn’t content to rest on its laurels. Just a few months after the MX3 first reached Chinese shops, the company’s Jack Wong has teased a full range of MX4G smartphones that includes Mini,...
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Neural Nets: Now Available In The Cloud
Neural networks are computers that simulate the same process of learning that is thought to go on in the brain. That makes them particularly good at tasks that are difficult with traditional...
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Sony’s Xperia Z Ultra gets WiFi-only ‘tablet’ option, launches in Japan this...
Dropping its radios for cell service and turning itself into a tablet… The 6.4-inch Xperia Z Ultra may be big enough to pull it off, but are you willing to pay just under $500 (52,000 yen) for the...
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Daily Roundup: Lumia 1320 review, NFC iPhone case, Beats Music hands-on and...
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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Productivity app Todoist drops the price and adds collaboration features
The latest version of the app Todoist, referred to simply as “Next,” hopes to capture the attention of the busy bees among us by offering small-scale project management features at a new, affordable...
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Google Glass wearer removed from AMC theater under suspicion of recording
Despite the many uses for Google Glass, this new class of wearable devices is inevitably meeting some growing pains (pictured above is 7’3″ Indiana Pacers center Roy Hibbert, a Glass wearer who has...
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Amazon reportedly considering live TV channels for new pay-TV service...
If the rumors surrounding Amazon’s forthcoming set-top box are any indication, the company’s betting big on online video delivery. It’s a move Amazon may even be hinting at with its latest recruitment...
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