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The Gnome Foundation, overseer of the Gnome user interface, has run out of cash. The news isn’t entirely bad: the Foundation says one of the programs it runs, the “Outreach Program for Women… has proven to be extremely popular”. OPW engages interns who Gnome must pay on a regular schedule. But

While the Xperia Z1 Ultra is Sony’s flagship big-screen phone, the T2 Ultra aims to hit a more affordable price point. The 6-inch phone features a 1.4GHz quad core processor, but doesn’t have the dust- and water-resistance of the Z1 Ultra, as well as making do with the lower 720p screen

What started a year ago as a shareholder dispute within VKontakte, Russia’s largest social network, appears to be emerging as a full-blown war of litigation. The faction most actively fanning the legal flames is United Capital Partners (UCP), a major Russian fund active in various sectors that acqui

No company worth its salt would want to remain where it is and let the rest of the world move on. No sir, they would want to remain at the cutting edge of innovation all the time, and Intel is no different, having updated its range of education-oriented tablet and notebook reference designs by rolli

Going green is a theme that I am quite sure many of us are more than familiar with these days, and hence, we have these cute trash bins that let us know how to sort our trash, and which ones can be recycled. Here is an interesting sight in the streets of Taiwan’s capital, where […]

It seems that Valve’s new Steam Controller has managed to touch on a new possible release date, targeting the October or November window. That would make it arrive well ahead of the frenzied holiday shopping season, which is a good thing if it carries over the good vibes. So far, this rumor hails fr

It looks like Australians will not be getting a unified catch-up TV app for their free-to-air TV needs, with Nine Entertainment’s Mi9 CEO saying that the space is too important for an industry-wide app. In an interview with Mumbrella, Mi9 CEO Mark Britt said: “There has been a debate abo

A new app can help you better organize photos on your smartphone by sorting them into albums based on distance, time or shape. The Tidy Photo app would group all the photos from a recent vacation together and pictures taken near or at work will be put together. The photos can also be organised by th

With five days left in their Kickstarter funding initiative, Neil Young and the PonoMusic team are now the third most funded campaign in Kickstarter history at $5.75 million as of today. PonoMusic CEO John Hamm is thrilled about hitting the milestone. “This campaign has exceeded our expectatio

Child car seats are essential for infant and toddler safety, but that doesn’t mean that parents are happy to use them. The seats are bulky and heavy, and they’re a pain to position correctly. But what if you could inflate a child seat once it was in position and then deflate it and stuff

Don’t look now, but your teenage daughter may be taking Shots. I’m not talking about Jack Daniel’s; I mean Shots, a mobile social network built entirely around selfies. The site is best known for the identity of one of its angel investors, a 20-year-old named Bieber. Regardless of what you think of

Many see Hurricane Sandy as merely a taste of what’s to come for coastal regions like the New York tri-state area as sea levels rise, and it’s led to a call for action. But there are two approaches to tackling the water: either try to forcefully block it with walls and similar devices, o

As I write this, I’ve tweeted close to 39,000 times. But according to one report, a large chunk of you have never sent a single tweet. As reported by the Wall Street Journal, Twitter analytics company Twopcharts says that, according to its data, 44 percent of Twitter accounts have never tweeted. No

Samsung may not be the first company to release a smartphone with a fingerprint sensor, but the decision to include PayPal support in the Galaxy S5 marked a potentially huge step forward for mobile payments. Verizon customers hoping to make use of the new feature may be out of luck though, according

It would appear that the biggest competitor to Google’s Chromecast has “pulled a Chromecast” and sold out no more than a week after being put on sale. Here we’re seeing the $99 USD Amazon Fire TV sold out through Amazon itself, heading to an “in stock” note for April 18th, on

Are we burnt out on anonymous apps yet? Nope. VC’s and entrepreneurs are just getting started. The latest foray into the craze comes from a few Canadian first time founders with a messaging app called Truth. Users can text anyone on their contacts list without the recipient knowing who sent them the

This morning, content distribution network Cloudflare gave some hope to those affected by the Heartbleed security flaw with an announcement that the bug might not be as bad as feared. In two weeks of testing, Cloudflare said, its researchers failed to exploit the bug to steal a website&#82

We’re sure you might have heard by now that BlackBerry and T-Mobile have recently announced that their licensing deal would be coming to an end, and that the deal will not be renewed. Given T-Mobile’s recent tactics which appear to target BlackBerry customers, it’s safe to say that the relationship

If there’s one thing you should know about Engadget, it’s that we absolutely love lasers. And thanks to the University of Arizona and University of Central Florida, our favorite pulsating form of light might soon find a much less destructive purpose, than say on Navy ships, anti-missile

Warehouse job got you down? Amazon will pay up to $5,000 to send you packing. In his latest letter to shareholders, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos revealed an interesting policy dubbed “Pay to Quit,” in which the company offers associates in its fulfillment centers $2,000 to quit their jobs after

If you have ever traveled to countries where the time difference of that country and your home is huge, you’ve probably experienced a rather nasty side-effect known as jetlag. For those who haven’t experienced jetlag, it basically makes you tired at odd hours of the day and extremely awake and alert

Aereo CEO Chet Kanojia said that he has no backup plan if the Supreme Court rules in favor of broadcasters who seek to put an end to his Internet TV startup. After being asked about whether he has a “Plan B,” Kanojia said, “No. There is no plan. We believe in our merit and we do think it

Samsung is taking another stab at the wearable market this week with a slew of new wearables: the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo smartwatches and the Gear Fit fitness tracker. As expected, the new Gear models are much improved over the original Galaxy Gear, with more comfortable designs and cleaner interface

The U.S. National Security Agency, which has a cybersecurity mission in addition to surveillance, has disputed a report that it knew about the Heartbleed security vulnerability for at least two years before other researchers disclosed the flaw this month. The NSA used Heartbleed to gather intelligen

The Department of Justice has indicted three men for allegedly abusing the Lifeline program, which provides low-income Americans with subsidized landline or prepaid wireless phone service. Thomas Biddix, Kevin Brian Cox, and Leonard Solt were charged on April 9th with 15 counts of wire fraud, false

Swedish ISP Bahnhof has long been a supporter of keeping its customers’ data private. Five years ago, we wrote about its decision to delete user log files to avoid having to rat out users under Sweden’s draconian IPRED law which required ISPs to hand over info on users accused of copyrig

Samsung’s latest smartphone, the Galaxy S5, is now available around the world. The Korean company’s flagship smartphone launched in 125 markets, including the United States, Europe, and much of Asia. It’s joined on shelves by the Samsung Gear 2 and Samsung Gear 2 Neo smartwatches,

With the unveiling of new Carousel and Mailbox apps and the rolling out of Dropbox for Business, CEO Drew Houston made it clear on Wednesday that Dropbox wants to be a bigger part of your day-to-day life. But protesters are threatening to ditch Dropbox from their life completely, thanks to yesterday

Re/code has shared the results from app testing firm Swrve’s “April 2014 New Player Report” that tracks the tendencies of 10 million players over the course of 90 days. With more than 30 titles being monitored, including titles from Activision, Epic Games and Gameloft, Swrve found that 66% of new pl

Amazon today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire digital comics vendor ComiXology for an undisclosed sum. ComiXology developed and distributes the engine used by most major comic book publishers in the United States, including Marvel and DC Comics for their privately branded digita

Dropbox wants to be your new family photo album. It also wants to be the collaboration tool for companies. And an email manager. On Wednesday, Dropbox unveiled a suite of new apps as part of a broader push to show it is more than about storing and sharing files. The effort is especially crucial as l

While Japan is the country with the highest number of vending machines per capita, this does not mean that other countries, too, are able to have some of the more unique vending machines to serve the masses. Take France for example – Operator Free Mobile, famous for their extremely cheap phone contr

It’s a guessing game parents like to ponder: What will my child look like when she grows up? A computer could now answer the question in less than a minute. University of Washington researchers have developed software that automatically generates images of a young child’s face as it ages through a l

A fight between a 16-year-old boy and his mother surrounding his attachment to online gaming took a turn for the worse when the woman reportedly threw herself in the river out of anger, followed by the teen. The mother and son are now presumed to have drowned during the dramatic altercation. A

Does Apple plan to launch a diamond-encrusted iWatch to compliment its gold iPhone 5s? Probably not, but well-connected Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities says that Apple is planning to launch several different iWatch models in 2014, including a high-end version that will cost thousands of

Printing that doesn’t have a 3D in front of it might seem dated, but it’s still needed by many people. So why not make it mobile? That’s exactly what Zuta Labs thought and has taken the initiative to implement. The Zuta Mini Mobile Robotic Printer has taken to Kickstarter to raise

Apple’s share of the U.S. computer hardware market slipped during the first quarter of 2014, with both IDC and Gartner seeing a year-over-year decline in worldwide PC shipments as consumers trend toward mobile. Unlike last quarter’s stellar performance, which saw Apple’s Mac buck t

Amazon might now be the defacto marketplace to buy and sell online goods in the UK, but eBay believes its “good surprise” might just lure customers back into the world of online auctions. In a bid to make things things a little easier for users to understand, eBay says that from May 13th

Running a business often amounts to juggling cashflow. The unfortunate reality is that expenses often go out long before the resulting revenue comes in. And that’s the best case scenario where there’s actually revenue. That’s one reason I prefer to write about businesses as a journalist, rather than

Air Canada is introducing Wi-Fi access to dozens of its aircraft beginning in May, with the aim of making wireless internet available on 130 of its narrow-bodied, North American aircraft by the end of 2015. Email, internet and mobile device apps will be made available on 29 aircraft this year, Air C