The Engadget Podcast returns!

Get your headphones ready folks, because the Engadget Podcast is back in action! Keep an eye out early next week for our first episode in two years, hosted by myself and reviews editor Cherlynn Low. We'll be diving deep into Microsoft's Surface event from this week, and posing this question: Is Microsoft making better PCs…

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This ‘Precision’ Countertop Griddle Isn’t That Precise

Many years ago, I walked into the kitchen to make Saturday morning pancakes for a group of friends and realized I had no idea how to do it. How hot should the pan be? When do you flip 'em? I must have wondered these questions aloud, as my then-girlfriend's mom tried to stage a kitchen…

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The First Smartphone War

“I went there behind the crude but serious belief that you had to be able to look at anything, serious because I acted on it and went, crude because I didn’t know; it took the war to teach it, that you were as responsible for everything you saw as you were for everything you did.”…

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15 Spooky Tech Deals on Drones, Headphones, and Horror Games

Clouds darken the sky, leaves litter the sidewalk, and pumpkins peer out of every storefront. It's October, y'all! That means it's time for sweaters, comfy leggings, pumpkin-spiced everything, and also, some deals. It's not quite Halloween yet, but retailers are still treating this weekend like a holiday. At least, that's what the new Destiny 2…

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These Small Cars Can Help Drive the Autonomous Future

Over the next three years, Houssam Abbas will carefully send 80 modified Traxxas RC rally cars—the Ford Fiesta model—to research facilities around the country. Some will go to Arizona State University, others to Clemson University, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, UCLA, Vanderbilt University, or the University of Iowa. In each place,…

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PayPal Unfriends Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency

When he introduced the Libra cryptocurrency in June, Facebook executive David Marcus began by invoking a founding vision of PayPal, a company he used to run. PayPal’s founders imagined a system of digital money that would seamlessly cross borders, doing for money what digitization had already done for communications. Libra, he said, was the realization…

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‘Red Dead Redemption 2’ Is Finally Coming to PC—and Stadia, Too!

Greetings and salutations! Welcome to this week's Replay, where we endeavor to catch you up on some of the biggest headlines in the gaming world that we haven't already covered. Spend just a few minutes reading over some interesting stories, and feel a bit closer to videogames this week. They're your friends, they'll enjoy it.…

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