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Get an additional week of free tunes if you sign up for Beats Music soon
With just how popular Beats headphones are, we can’t say we’re surprised that Dr. Dre’s similarly named music service has had a hard time coping with a flood of users during launch. As such, Beats...
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Daily Roundup: Snapchat’s adorable captcha, T-Mo’s ‘Mobile Money’ 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...
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HTG Reviews the Kobo Aura HD: It’s Not a Kindle and That’s OK
Although the ebook reader market has been dominated by the Kindle (still going strong) and the Nook (losing steam) for years, there’s a contender rising from the ranks: the Kobo Aura HD. Read on as we...
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DJI’s Phantom 2 Vision takes a stabilized camera to the sky, we go hands-on...
You may not have come across DJI before, but this brand is no stranger in the world of hobbyist drones. Even production studios use the company’s gear for aerial videography, but that involves a lot...
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World’s most precise atomic clock will still be spot-on in 5 billion years
Most of us only pay attention to time when it’s causing headaches, but the same can’t be said of a team of researchers working out of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Led by National Institute...
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TiVo reportedly lays off industrial design team, sees its future in DVR software
According to a rumor from Wired, the network DVR prototype TiVo showed off at CES is much more than a dream, and could be a big part of its future. The unnamed internal sources claim TiVo laid off 5...
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Yahoo search gets safer with automatic encryption
Just as Marissa Mayer promised, Yahoo has started plugging security holes ahead of its self-imposed Q1 2014 deadline. From now on, all of your searches done via the internet giant’s home page will be...
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How to Enter the USA Green Card Lottery
The Diversity Visa Program, or “Green Card Lottery,” is an annual lottery run by the U.S. Department of State to allow about 50,000 people a chance to get a permanent resident visa to the USA. The...
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Google wants you to know what you’re clicking on
Google knows a lot, both about its users and about the internet in general. Today, the team in Mountain View has found a new way to share more of its vast knowledge of the web with us by providing...
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Facebook’s targeted ads set to appear in apps other than Facebook
If you’ve ever been creeped out by those eerily targeted ads on Facebook, get ready for more of the same in other mobile apps as well. The popular social network has announced today that it’s testing...
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TiVo reportedly lays off industrial design team, sees its future in DVR...
According to a rumor from Wired, the network DVR prototype TiVo showed off at CES is much more than a dream, and could be a big part of its future. The unnamed internal sources claim TiVo laid off 5...
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Coder defeats Snapchat’s anti-bot system in less than an hour
Apparently, Snapchat’s spot-the-ghost human verification tool isn’t all that clever — Steven Hickson has already written software that circumvents the anti-bot feature. His technique simply finds the...
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Nest Competitor Monitors Your House’s Leaks on the Cheap
Earlier this month, as Google was snatching up the smart-thermostat maker Nest for $3.2 billion, a lesser known home sensor company made its own announcement. SNUPI Technologies, a Seattle startup,...
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Startup Thinks Its Battery Will Solve Renewable Energy’s Big Flaw
Power pellets: Battery electrodes emerge from new factory equipment at a plant near Pittsburgh. They’re made of powders pressed together by the same sort of equipment that makes aspirin tablets. A...
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Independent federal review board calls for NSA to end ‘illegal’ phone call...
Following up on what we’ve learned about the NSA’s various spying activities over the last year, the aptly-named Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board is apparently ready to issue a report on...
View ArticleHow to Make a Degree Symbol
The degree symbol – º – is easy to add to your typed or online work. Since it’s standard for much written work, from recipes and mathematics, to the weather, it’s a handy symbol to know how to make....
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Model S goes on sale in China for $121K, but Tesla says it’s leaving money on...
About a year after announcing plans to open a retail location in China, Tesla is releasing its Model S sedan there. Coming in at 734,000 CNY or about $121K US, it carries a premium over the $81,070 US...
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Nokia’s phone business ends not with a bang, but with a whimper
2013 is the last year that we’ll see Nokia in its current form, as the world-famous handset business should be hived-off to become part of Microsoft’s corporate family in the next few months. But how...
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Google’s reasonably priced Street View car tours Top Gear’s test track
Like swerving bends and screaming “powerrr!” as much as you dislike electric vehicles? Imagine your delight, then, when you learn that Google and the BBC have teamed up to send one of the former’s...
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Google offers Fiber to more Provo residents, to expand coverage area...
Provo residents who took advantage of Google Fiber’s early registration can no longer claim to be the chosen few. The company has started accepting sign-ups from more folks, so long as they live in...
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