Instagram dodges child safety laws. By not asking users their age upon signup, it can feign ignorance about how old they are. That way, it can’t be held liable for…

2019 offered a blistering catalog of books to peruse, on top of the prodigious publishing schedules of the past few years (if you think we are at Peak TV, you…

The sale only includes Intel's smartphone modem business; the chipmaker will still be creating modems for PCs, IoT gadgets and autonomous vehicles.Intel claims that Qualcomm's anti-competitive patenting tactics forced the sale of its smartphone modem business to Apple. The company's executives have been testifying about the claim in court as part of the FTC's ongoing…

A stripped-down Rolls-Royce Phantom V.The team takes a 3D scan of the car and uses professional CAD (computer-aided design) software Solidworks to model each part and figure out where it should sit in the car. "Sometimes we end up just a little bit heavier than [the car] used to be, but with that weight evenly…

The network covers more than one million square miles, including many rural areas, and 200 million people. The "low-band" 5G won't be as fast as the 5G we've seen from carriers like Sprint and Verizon (Engadget's parent company), but it will have better range, so it shouldn't run into problems like not being able to…

The team used China's Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) to find stars orbiting objects that are seemingly invisible -- a technique that had been proposed back in 1783, but hadn't really been possible until recently. They then used both the US' Keck I telescope and Spain's Gran Telescopio Canarias to determine the…

Winter can make you miserable if you're under-equipped. You have the best intentions and keep running outside and hiking on the weekends as the temperature drops. But after a few bad trips soaked to your skivvies or frozen to your fingertips, your living room couch starts looking pretty good—too good.Don't let weather become an excuse.…

The day before Cyber Monday, Amazon’s largest shopping event of the year, the company faced yet another controversy over offensive items for sale on its site. On Sunday, Amazon removed Christmas tree ornaments, a bottle opener, and other products featuring pictures of Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration camp where historians estimate more than a million…

Normally, we here at WIRED wait until a show’s season is over to really pick it apart, but last night’s Watchmen was such a doozy we couldn’t wait. The flashbacks! Angela’s treatment at Lady Trieu’s facility! The big reveal at the end! Unable to sit on our hands any longer, WIRED writers and editors Jason…

Cyber Monday has arrived, and with it a host of special deals and offers. While some are holdovers from last week's Black Friday festivities, many are entirely new.One of the biggest sectors for deep Cyber Monday savings is gaming—from PS4 and Xbox One to PC, VR, and Nintendo Switch, every platform is seeing hefty discounts.…