Another thing I liked about the Go was its keyboard. The original Pixelbook was lauded for its comfortable and quiet keyboard. Still, as senior product manager Ben Janofsky told Engadget, the company wanted to make sure the new Chromebook had an even better keyboard. The team took the original Pixelbook's setup and spent two years…

The new map is the biggest change. When you drop out of the Battle Bus for the first time, you immediately see that Epic hasn't uncovered the names of the new map locations. That's an intentional part of Epic's new medal system which exists alongside challenges. It rewards you for completing various in-game activities, like…

Last Monday, just as the workday was winding down, Paula Milano received a phone call that threw her week into chaos. Milano, who helps run the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, had been gearing up for a satellite launch. But on the phone now was a friend of hers, with bad…

From the very beginning, technology has attempted to predict the rhythms of our private and collective desires. When music streaming services rocketed into public favor at the tail end of the new millennium, they implemented “discovery” options that, in effect, proposed songs based on what a user listened to or liked or shared with a…

In the wake of extensive mishandling of user data and a series of security missteps, Facebook has deployed a number of security and privacy initiatives. A key focus: expanding its long-standing bug bounty program. Now Facebook is courting outside hackers more aggressively than ever.Last year, the company began paying bounties for certain bugs researchers might…

Say what you will about the US health care system; if you're trying to stay healthy in space, it’s a dream. Just ask Mike Massimino, a former NASA astronaut who has flown to space twice for extended stays.Getting medical treatment on the International Space Station is complicated, so NASA does its best to ensure astronauts…

The first generation of Google’s Airpod-contenders sounded fine, if you could get past the many frustrations of getting them to work properly. Pairing was a mess, some features only worked with Pixel phones—even turning them off was overly complicated. The newly announced Pixel Buds (yep, the name stays) aim to be the refresh that fixes…

The fourth is with us—the fourth Democratic primary debate, that is. And there have been ju-u-u-st a few notable developments out of Washington, DC, since candidates last took the debate stage in September. The Nationals made the playoffs, for one thing. Oh, and the president faces an impeachment inquiry for using US diplomatic channels to…

A few years ago, Google started selling its own smartphones. These handsets, named Pixels, represented a shift in Google’s approach to mobile hardware. Previously, the company had shipped Nexus-branded products that were manufactured by different hardware partners, but Pixel was supposed to be all Googley from the ground up: Designed, developed, and sold by the…

I knew the end was coming when the Weather widget on Apple’s Dashboard stopped showing daily temperature lows over the last year or so. Soon enough, there were no forecasts at all—the Weather widget became a blank blue box, at least for me. You don’t just let one of your marquee widgets deteriorate into a…