Body cameras given to 'over 22,000' London police officers

To help keep the peace, more than 22,000 London police officers will soon be given body cameras. The roll-out begins today -- six months later than former mayor Boris Johnson had anticipated. The new hardware, supplied by Taser, won't be re…

Apple’s Tim Cook speaks on Apple’s AI plans

Pixar founder George Lucas may have given the world the word “Droid” before he sold the company to Apple’s Steve Jobs, but Apple CEO Tim Cook makes no secret that he wants his company to play its part in making intelligence in machines a reality.…

Hospital Ward Gripped by Mysterious Hallucinations Quarantined After Five Fall Ill

This week, an emergency room in the Pacific Northwest was briefly quarantined after five people—including two police officers and a hospital worker—experienced mysterious hallucinations from an unidentified illness believed to be spread by touch.Rea…

These Cryptic Wikileaks Tweets Don't Mean Julian Assange Is Dead

Earlier today, Wikileaks tweeted out a series of three terse, confusing messages, each containing a 64-character code. Now a lot of people think Julian Assange is dead.Read more...

Tesla and Panasonic to build solar panels for PowerWall systems

Tesla has entered a deal with Panasonic to manufacture solar panels at the new SolarCity facility in Buffalo, NY. However, the deal is non-binding and depends on shareholder approval of Tesla's $2.6 billion acquisition of SolarCity. In its …

Disk Drill 3 review: Mac utility now recovers data from iOS devices, too

Earlier this year I reviewed Disk Drill 2, a highly recommended utility for recovering data from any storage volume attached to your Mac, regardless of which file system it was created with. While the software exceeded expectations in terms of f…

Best iPhone: How to pick the perfect iPhone for you

Picking out an iPhone used to be easier—just get the newest one with all the storage you can afford. We still recommend plenty of storage, but the choice of which iPhone to go with that storage isn’t quite so cut-and-dry. Do you want the phone w…

Netatmo Healthy Home Coach review: This indoor climate monitor reports the obvious

This gizmo monitors indoor air quality, temperature, humidity, and noise, but it won't tell you much you don't already know.

13-Month-Old Twins Conjoined at the Head Successfully Separated

Jadon and Anias McDonald were born joined at the head last September. On Thursday evening, 40 medical professionals spent 16 hours disconnecting Jadon and Anias in a rare operation. The McDonalds are from Coal City, Illinois, but the surgery was per…

CallKit issues reportedly force Apple to put some call-directory extensions reviews and approvals on hold

Trump Can't Spell 'Wikileaks' But His Campaign Can

There’s a long-standing theory that you can tell which tweets Trump writes himself and which ones are sent by his campaign based on the device they’re sent from. After analyzing Trump’s tweets, data scientist David Robinson concluded that “we can se…

Juno's misbehaving engine means a change of plans around Jupiter

Three months ago, the Juno probe ended a years-long journey when it settled into orbit around Jupiter. Everything's just peachy with Juno's cameras -- as evidenced by these magnificent photos -- but it turns out its primary Leros 1b engine …

The Talk Show: ‘Kicking Dirt on Them While They’re on Fire’

Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25 Million in Support of Donald Trump

Increased encryption will help keep porn browsing private

Thanks to boosts in visibility when it comes to search and web browsers, you've probably noticed more websites (like Engadget) switching to HTTPS, which uses encryption to secure the connection between browser and server. Despite benefits t…

Stranger Things Actor Addresses Will's Sexual Orientation

There’s been a lot of talk about whether Will from Stranger Things is gay, largely because bullies on the show call him homophobic slurs, which admittedly seems like a weird way to code a character. Will’s sexual identity hasn’t been explored in the…

President Obama calls for a plan to deal with extreme space weather

As President Barack Obama's administration enters its final stages, he's paying more attention to what's going on way, way above us than expected. Just days after the president outlined his vision for landing humans on Mars by the 2030s, he…

Use the iPhone Flashlight & Adjust Flashlight Brightness in iOS 10

With the latest versions of iOS, your wonderfully useful iPhone flashlight can adjust the strength of its flashlight brightness, with three options of LED brightness intensity. This is really great to have the iPhone, as many dedicated LED flashligh…

Microsoft Office 2016 15.27 and Office 2011 14.6.9

Makes improvements to Excel, OneNote, and PowerPoint in Office 2016, and resolves memory corruption vulnerabilities for both editions. ($149.99 new, free update) Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publicat…

Why the "Organic" Label Doesn't Always Mean Your Food Is Healthier

When you see the word “organic” on your food, you assume it’s healthier and not made with scary chemicals. As this video explains, neither of those are totally safe assumptions.Read more...

China's Launching Its Longest Manned Space Mission Tonight and You Can Stream It Here

Today, China is set to launch its longest manned spacecraft mission at 7:30pm ET (2330 GMT) from the Gobi Desert and you can watch it live right here.Read more...