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Waterloo Labs uses paintball guns to make automated works of art
Waterloo Labs is at it again, but instead of concocting eyeball-controls for Italian plumbers, it’s futzing with paintball guns. The team has rigged a trio of the paint-filled firearms to make...
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Sony Xperia Z1 Compact review: a good thing in a small(ish) package
Last year, Sony finally reached the end of the alphabet with its Xperia Z. It wasn’t just that the company ran out of letters, though: With the Xperia Z, we saw Sony streamline its scattered phone...
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Time Warner Cable to improve network in NYC and LA, promises faster internet,...
TWC Maxx: The extra “x” means it’s better. At least, that’s what Time Warner Cable would have us believe about its thusly named new initiative to improve the quality of its pay-TV and internet...
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Monkeys Modified with Genome Editing
Prime cuts: The faint ladder-rung patterns in an image of a DNA gel show that genome editing successfully modified a gene in two macaque infants (central columns), but not in an untreated animal...
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Geek Trivia: Which Sci-Fi Movie Features An Alien Language The Main Actor Was...
Which Sci-Fi Movie Features An Alien Language The Main Actor Was Fluent In? Star Wars Stargate The Fifth Element Star Trek: The Motion Picture Think you know the answer? Originally posted here - Geek...
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How We Look for Extraterrestrial Life
Have you ever wondered what criteria or signs scientists look for when studying exo-planets for signs of life? Today’s video discusses the topic, the fascinating information we are already learning...
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How to Add PC Settings to Your Windows 8.x Start Screen
You can easily access the PC Settings screen in Windows 8.1… by swiping on the right side of the screen, and then clicking on Settings, and then finally clicking on PC Settings at the bottom of the...
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Amazon’s Q4 profit more than doubles year-over-year to hit $239 million
Amazon clearly didn’t have any problems generating a profit this holiday. The online retail powerhouse says that it made a tidy profit of $239 million in the fourth quarter of 2013, or more than twice...
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Google finishes up 2013 on a high note, Motorola on a low one (financially...
We’ve grown accustomed to Google making piles of money, and the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2013 continues the trend . How big’s the pile this time? $16.86 billion in revenue and almost $4 billion...
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What Lenovo’s Motorola deal could mean for American manufacturing
Lenovo purchasing Motorola from Google raises a lot of questions. But, lost amid all the speculation over what this means for the marketplace, is the potential human cost. Motorola directly employs...
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Yahoo’s latest acquisition points to a Google Now rival
Yahoo’s latest acquisition is Incredible Labs, the company behind personal-assistant iOS app Donna. Most of the seven-member Incredible Labs team will stay on with Yahoo, though the iOS app will no...
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Here’s a peek at the new Cosmos series, hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Yup, that is Neil deGrasse Tyson standing amidst a virtualization of the universe, which can only mean one thing: the astrophysicist has ascended beyond our mortal coil into a higher plane of being!...
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NFL Now online network promises a unique experience for football fans
Super Bowl XLVIII is just around the corner, and the NFL’s taking advantage of the week leading up to it by using it as a platform to reveal its next venture: NFL Now. Today, at a press event in New...
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Q&A: Dropbox CEO Drew Houston
Dropbox, the popular cloud storage system that lets people drag files to an icon that puts that data in the cloud and sync new versions across multiple devices (see “Hiding All the Complexities of...
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Recommended from Around the Web (Week Ending January 31, 2014)
From Warheads to Cheap EnergyPeople used to worry about uranium supplied in the U.S. An ingenious arms-control deal solved that problem.—Kevin Bullis, senior editor, energy Organic ShmorganicA smart...
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To Find Friends, Start at iPhone, Turn Left at Glass
Google won’t approve any apps for its head-worn Glass device that use facial or audio recognition to identify and learn more about the people around you. There are other ways to accomplish this,...
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How do You Find Out Which Computer Fan is Being Loud?
What do you do when a fan on your computer is loud enough to be disruptive to your work-flow, or is ruining the fun when doing other things? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post looks at the best way to...
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Engadget HD Podcast 383 – 1.30.14
The rumor mill has been grinding away this week, providing juicy bits of Apple and Amazon news for Ben and Richard to chew on. Netflix also announces its new ‘post-play’ feature, which prompts the...
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What does national security have to do with the Lenovo-Motorola deal?
Lenovo’s planned acquisition of Motorola’s mobile phone business will likely be reviewed by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US (CFIUS), the government agency that makes sure foreign...
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Yahoo Mail accounts breached through third-party database hacking
An unidentified number of Yahoo email accounts were recently breached, the company revealed this afternoon. Affected users have already been notified, and Yahoo says it’s doing everything it can to...
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