Even so, I can't help but wish Motorola had cooked up a few more ways to get things done on a RAZR without having to open it. That external screen is too small to fully display apps, so that's out, but I'd love to access quick controls for say, my Hue lights, or sift through…

The media giant didn't say how many of those had signed up on launch day versus taking advantage of weeks of pre-orders. There's no question that Disney has been determined to get as many day-one customers as possible, though. The pre-orders included discounted three-year plans, and some Verizon customers (that's Engadget's parent company) will get…

The deal might make you wonder why Viacom-owned Nickelodeon is partnering with Netflix when Viacom has its own streaming service and is in the process of merging with CBS, which also has its own streaming service. Chances are, Netflix is funding a good portion of the production costs, and it's undoubtedly a move to challenge…

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To the sort of person who reads Engadget, the 16-inch MacBook Pro looks clearly different from the one it replaces. The physical Escape key is back (hooray again!), which means the Touch Bar is shorter than it would be otherwise. And the keyboard doesn't look as flat as it used to and indeed, it's not!…

By today’s smartphone standards, the original Motorola Razr phone is primitive. At the time it debuted in the early 2000s, however, the ultra-thin clamshell phone’s metallic build, electroluminescent keyboard, and long battery life came close to mobile phone nirvana. It even gave a satisfying snap when you shut it.Years later, Motorola tried to revitalize the…

Drew Stewart got the call at around 2 am: They broke the universe again, you should check it out.So Stewart did something he’s done countless times before; he has no idea how many. He turned on Star Wars. But this time was different—literally. The galaxy had changed, like a glitch in the Matrix (if you’ll…

Maybe you live in Ohio, far away from rising seas. Maybe you live in Canada, nowhere near a blazing desert. You might think climate change isn’t your problem, at least not yet. But maybe today we can change your mind.The medical journal The Lancet just released its annual report on climate change and human health.…

Sometimes a bad piece of legislation doesn’t die, it just returns in another form—call it a zombie bill. In this case, the zombie is a bill that morphed into a proposed rule that would upend how the federal government uses science in its decisionmaking. It would allow the US Environmental Protection Agency to pick and…

The least interesting thing about the alleged Russian hacker who appeared Tuesday morning in a Virginia courtroom may end up being the charges he faces there. The Justice Department indicted Aleksei Yurievich Burkov on five counts related to his alleged role from from 2009 to 2013 running an online criminal marketplace, known as CardPlanet, that…