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Smartwatches can get pretty expensive, but if you've been waiting for a decent discount to pick one up, Amazon is offering some great deals during its Memorial Day sale. Garmin and Samsung Gear S3 smartwatches are on sale now. The post Garmin and Sams...

Intel tries to steal AMD's Computex thunder with news that 10nm is getting real, and an upticked version of its flagship mainstream desktop CPU is coming....

Airbnb and New York City are inching closer to making peace over data sharing. To start, the home rental outfit has reached an agreement to hand over semi-anonymized host and reservation data for over 17,000 listings in the city. It's also providin......

Video game addiction gets added to the organization's latest list of modern-day ills....

Snapchat could soon get more musical. Snap has been "in talks" with a number of record labels in an effort to broker deals that would let the company add more music to its app, according to a recent report in The Wall Street Journal . The talks ar...

Companies building therapeutic technologies could find a faster path to market through partnerships with pharma companies....

AMD RAID drivers blamed for stopping Windows 10 v1903 updates....

The development of Cyberpunk 2077 is at "full speed," but it will not yet be playable at E3 2019. CD Projekt Red's president, meanwhile, opened the possibility that the game's release date will finally be revealed at the annual event. The ...

Today's Android phones pack big, bright screens and high-end features that suck plenty of power. Here's how to squeeze the most juice out of your battery....

There's no doubt that Bob Moog had a massive influence on music by making synthesizers popular and accessible, and now there's a dedicated place to pay homage to his legacy. The Bob Moog Foundation has opened the Moogseum, a museum in Asheville, N...

Riccardo Zacconi has been at the helm of game developer King Digital for more than 16 years....

International experience shows having four mobile operators in a market delivers better outcomes for consumers, the chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has said, defending a decision to oppose a proposed merger between Vodafone Hut...

Cruising through the children's hands-on activity zone at Maker Faire Bay Area, we see kids building a cardboard enclosure for the Chatterbox smart speaker kit. It would be tempting to dismiss the lit......

ZVOX audio has been credited as the maker of the first commercially successful soundbar, but the innovation didn't stop there. CEO Tom Hannaher and his team are working to help bring high-quality TV audio to the hearing impaired. The post How ZVOX sou...

Dauntless suffered from matchmaking problems and server issues in its first days after launch. Things have started getting better for the Monster Hunter: World challenger though, as the game surpassed 5 million players in its first week. The post Dauntles...

A new class-action lawsuit claims that Apple is "intentionally and unlawfully" disclosing its customers' iTunes listening data to third parties in violation of state privacy laws....

When the US pushed Grindr's owner to sell the app over national security concerns, it made only vague allusions to what might have prompted the decision. Now, however, the situation is clearer. Reuters sources have claimed that Beijing Kunlun trigg......

One of the first things we've seen this week at Computex is the new MSI P100 Creator system. I've always been a big fan of good design ID, and in the past we've seen companies attempt to market gaming oriented designs into the professional des...

Tesla owners will soon find that they can no longer charge up to 100 percent at some Supercharger stations. The car maker has opted to limit charging to 80 percent at some of its busiest stations, according to a report in Electrek. "Today, we released...

Netflix teamed up with Latin American YouTubers to create three Little Black Mirror mini-stories, but they're only available in Latin America. The Little Black Mirror series is a promotional campaign aimed at Spanish-speaking audiences, according to a...

It's not smart to go without a case for a glass phone like the Huawei P30 Pro, so you should shop for protection before it picks up a scratch or worse. We've rounded up the best Huawei P30 Pro cases and covers right here. The post Best Huawei P30 ...

The Walmart Memorial Day sale is in full swing. With some pretty nice savings on Apple iPads, Samsung and Vizio 4K TVs, laptops, and Google Home devices, now is a great time to snag some electronics for cheap. The post Walmart Memorial Day sale: 4K TVs, D...

Chris Heatherly, Michael Fox, and Sean Krankel spoke about interactive story games at our GamesBeat Summit 2019 event in April....

: The WHO calls gaming addiction...

Tidying master Marie Kondo is working on a children's book about friendship, tidying up, and, of course, embracing joy. View this post on Instagram Introducing "Kiki & Jax," my upcoming children's picture book co-written and illustrated by...

This week, both our top winners on the insightful side come in response to a comment on our post about Price Harry using the GDPR to go after a photographer, asserting that it's a good thing because the target was a paparazzi, not a journalist. Stephe...

By Melanie PinolaThis post was done in partnership with Wirecutter. When readers choose to buy Wirecutter's independently chosen editorial picks, Wirecutter and Engadget may earn affiliate commission. Read the full guide to ergonomic keyboards.Er......

Six years ago, British intelligence officers walked into the offices of The Guardian newspaper in London and demanded its staff destroy computers they believed stored highly classified documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. In the basement ...

We've seen a lot of different Memorial Day sales come down the pipeline this week, but some of the best so far have been from Dell. With big discounts on XPS and Alienware gaming laptops, now is a great time to pick up a new computer for less than the...

Graduation is a big day in the life of a high school student. It's the final step in a journey that takes years and regardless of what lies beyond — be it college, technical training, or a pl......

Looking for the best PS4 games out there? Out of the massive crop of titles available, we selected the best you should buy. No matter what your genre of choice may be, there's something here for you. The post The best PS4 games (May 2019) appeared fir...

Best answer: Yes, the Oculus Quest can be used while charging thanks to the extended charging cable provided with the headset.Untethered VR experience: Oculus Quest (From $399 on Amazon)Long-lasting power: Anker PowerCore 10000 ($32 at Amazon)Why can I ru...

Modern enthusiasts often want one of two things from their monitor: high frame rates, or great color reproduction. MSI is certainly going for the latter in its new 5Kx2K display, the PS341WU. This is a 5120x2160 21:9 monitor that offers 98% coverage of th...

What if an e-bike could be shared with the entire family to help justify the cost? To do that, you'd need a bike with broad visual appeal and a frame that can accommodate riders of all sizes. Something like the $2,598 Electrified X2 from Dutch bike ma...

Congratulations to the referee in the Netherlands who scored a goal against the Harkemase Boys football club on Saturday. During a match between the Harkemase Boys and HSV Hoek in the Netherlands, the Harkemase Boys' defense were scrambling to stop th...

A laptop infected with some of the most destructive pieces of malware ever may sound like the kind of ticking time bomb you'd expect only in sci-fi movies. But one man has created just such a machine, and it can be yours — if you have about $1 m...

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and articles: Data privacy: A hot-button issue for Americans one year after GDPR In recognition of GDPR's first anniversary, nCipher Security conducted a survey to gauge American ...

Recompose is spearheading a greener green burial....

A series of web sites are pushing a scam promising $5-30 worth of free bitcoins a day simply by running their Bitcoin Collector program. In reality, this program does nothing but install ransomware or password-stealing Trojans onto a victim's computer...

The culture of planned obsolescence in electronics produces a huge amount of toxic waste unlikely to go anywhere but a landfill for the next millennium or so. Nature produces some of the strongest and most versatile substances we've ever encountered, ...

Being a good digital citizen means being a responsible one: educating yourself and your kids about the digital world, participating in it in positive ways, questioning it and using technology as a tool to make the world a bit brighter (and not in som......

HoloLens and Magic Leap should be happy about their support today, but Apple could get a whole lot of love from the industry if it chooses to take them on....

How, and if, people travel on Memorial Day weekend can provide a fleeting glimpse at the state of the U.S. economy, or at least provide insight into consumer confidence. The upshot this year: a near record-setting travel despite a rising national gas pric...

The Nitro can also be equipped with Radeon RX 560X graphics, while the 14-inch Swift 3 laptop weighs in at just 3.2 pounds....

Night creatures and insomniacs of a bygone era may fondly recall a TV test pattern appearing once [Jack Parr] or [Steve Allen] had had their say and the local TV station's regular broadcast day had co......

New research shows that water carried aboard comets may originate from the same source as water in the Earth's oceans, suggesting that water could have been carried to our planet on comets. The post Water on Earth could have an interstellar origin, ac...

You can forget those dodgy illegal streams for these finals - get a free live stream, even if you're abroad....

Netflix isn't done pushing back against Cannes for rejecting its movies -- if anything, it's escalating the fight. The company has acquired international rights for two winners at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, with its crown jewel being Mati Diop...

The Mars 2020 rover, has been put through its paces in a further round of testing, undergoing acoustic and thermal vacuum tests which simulate the conditions of launch and space to check the craft can withstand extreme environments. The post Mars 2020 spa...

There are so many unicorns in the market today — they stampede by the hundred in 2019 — that they are impossible to keep tabs on....