Thursday, December 31, 2015

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Oculus pushes Rift Touch launch date to second half of 2016

Oculus announced on its website Thursday that the Touch handheld controller accessories to its highly-anticipated Rift VR headset will be delayed to the second half of 2016. [Read more...]

Laugh the pain away with 2015's best infosec memes

As you might guess, infosec memes aren't as straightforward as Pizza Rat or Left Shark. That's because most of the time they run on one part inside jokes and two parts hacker history. [Read more...]

New Apple patent hints at near-universal mobile payments

A recently filed patent application suggests that Apple has bigger plans for its peer-to-peer mobile payment system than just iMessage. [Read more...]

What do the biggest tech companies have in store for CES?

Don't get us wrong: When Team Engadget arrives at CES in Vegas next week, we plan to be thorough, combing through aisles upon aisles of crapgadgets so that you don't have to. [Read more...]

'Star Trek' owners sue to stop a crowdfunded fan film

If there's one thing that CBS Studios and Paramount Pictures are good at, it's showing how much contempt they have for Star Trek fans. [Read more...]

Hackers get Linux running on a PlayStation 4

In the two years since the PlayStation 4 first went on sale, hackers have enjoyed limited success in their efforts to open up the console. [Read more...]

3D printed digital sundial is brilliant and insane

People have been using the sun to tell the time since life began, but few ever expected that system to be worthy of an upgrade. [Read more...]

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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

7 stories you shouldn't miss

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What to expect from CES in 2016

In just a few days the Engadget team will be getting on a plane (well several different planes) and heading to Vegas. [Read more...]

Potential Tesla competitor posts teaser video of concept car

Ahead of its big reveal at CES next week, super-secret car company Faraday Future unveiled a short teaser video of a concept car driving around a track at either sunset or day break with dramatic music playing in the background. [Read more...]

AT&T to ditch most two-year phone contracts on January 8th

AT&T's long affair with the two-year contract continues to wind down, Engadget has learned. [Read more...]

Save big on the coolest gadgets of 2015

From VR to DIY, 2015 was an exciting year for consumer tech and gadgets. We've rounded up five limited time offers on some of the coolest tech products from the last year -- Don't miss these big time savings.

The prose at the end of the universe

For over a decade, Canadian poet Dr. Christian Bök has toiled to create living prose. Bök calls the project The Xenotext and, should he be successful in his attempts, he will have done something truly special. [Read more...]

Twitter slammed for hiring Apple's (white) head of diversity

Twitter is one of the Silicon Valley companies most criticized for a lack of diversity, and its latest hire isn't helping that image. [Read more...]

LG has a smarthome hub that looks a lot like an Amazon Echo

LG is like the kid who can't keep what he got you for Christmas a secret. Except here, it isn't gifts wrapped under the tree, it's what the electronics giant will be showing off at CES. [Read more...]

Google will strip Oracle's Java code out of Android

Google has confirmed that it will no longer use proprietary Java application programming interfaces (APIs) from Oracle in future versions of Android, according to VentureBeat. [Read more...]