April 2015 ~ Engadget

Grooveshark's illegal music streaming service is extinct

Death's icy grip hit more than just Secret this week; Grooveshark is shutting down too. Last year, judges found the music streaming service guilty of mass copyright infringement for hosting illegal uploads...

A number of internet organizations and even the government want websites to use encryption by default in the future, and from the sound of it, Mozilla shares their view. The non-profit has announced...

Our lust for electricity is insatiable. At night we connect a hydra of wires to our phones, computers, smartwatches and tablets. They sip at the electrons being pumped into our homes, filling their batteries...

Ready to get caught up on some of today's top stories? Find out what we thought about the Apple Watch in our review, learn about what's changed in Windows 10 from Microsoft's design lead and read why...

With both Apple and Google wrangling to become the infotainment center of your next new car, Ford will be choosing neither. Or both, depending on how you look at it. During an interview with Re/code,...

With the release of Windows 10, Sony won't be the only company to offer game streaming from its consoles. Today we finally got our hands on Windows 10's Xbox One game streaming feature, which lets you...

Lithium ion batteries are practically ubiquitous; they power everything from laptops and cell phones to cameras and tablets. But before they can start providing the juice for bigger and more demanding...

Tesla is known for its amazingly quick electric vehicles, but if the chatter around today's event is true, the Elon Musk-led company will be introducing a home battery solution this evening. The livestream...

Microsoft Band users might get to enjoy a lot more third-party apps in the near future. Redmond has released the full Band SDK, giving developers power to create fully functional apps for the fitness...

You're home alone. It's the dead of night and all of the lights are off; you creep down the hallway with one hand dragging along the wall, your phone serving as a makeshift flashlight. You hear a young...

It's only been a few months since Microsoft introduced the augmented reality HoloLens headset, and now we've got a close look at the unit to show you. We don't have much to show other than these pictures...

From pizza to Fiats, people love giving gifts to Pope Francis. Most recently, students from a Jesuit school in Rome presented the Holy See with a customized quadcopter painted in the colors of the the...

Siri started handling song queries when iOS 8 arrived, and now Google's voice commands recognize Shazam as a prompt to do the same on Android. That's right, Android devices now recognize the "Shazam"...

We still don't have an official release date for Windows 10, but Microsoft maintains it's on track for release this summer. That's according to Joe Belfiore, its corporate vice president of operating...

Since we're right smack in the middle of Microsoft's BUILD dev conference, the company's showing off one of it's Azure APIs with a site you can put to the test. How-Old.net allows you to upload a picture...

Eager to build a game or 3D modelling tool that takes advantage of HTC's Vive and other SteamVR-friendly virtual reality headsets? It's time to get cracking. Valve has released a software development...

In an effort to reduce police abuses that have occurred with frightening regularity throughout the US, the Southern California branch of the ACLU has just released a new smartphone app designed to securely...

The weather's getting warm, which means here at Engadget HQ, we're already planning our summer getaways. For us, that means we're gearing up for the return of Engadget Live, where we throw a series of...

The first results to stem from President Barack Obama's 2013 "Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies" initiative are in, Reuters reports. As noted in the journal Neuron, scientists...

Earlier this year, Uber launched an in-app panic button for people in India, which lets any user easily alert local police in case of an emergency. And now this safety feature is getting improved. The...

Carroll Shelby's iconic Cobra roadster has been making jaws drop for half a century now. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Cobra's debut the US Department of Energy built one of its own. The new...

Welcome to the new masochism! For a decade now, games have held our hands and walked us patiently through their soft hallways. Playing BioShock Infinite? Try easy mode, darling. Rollicking your way through...

Some say surrealism was the most influential art movement of the past century and, perhaps unsurprisingly, it's had an effect on video game developers too. The games you'll find below weren't made by...

I took Samsung's Level line of "premium" audio gear for a spin last summer, and now the company is adding another wireless model to the set. The Level On Wireless is exactly what the name suggests: a...

I was torn this past winter. I knew the Galaxy S6 was imminent and that there'd likely be a model with a curved screen, but I was dying to see what it was like to live with its bigger precursor, the...

Unless you live in California, it's not that often that you make an effort to specifically check the traffic conditions for your morning commute. That's probably because you'll be spending a big chunk...

The partnership between tech giants Apple and IBM, which began last year, isn't just about playing nice with each other. In Japan, the two companies just announced an initiative that will deliver up...

Elon Musk may be the most famous tech billionaire with an interest in spaceflight, but he's certainly not the only one. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos also has a company, Blue Origin, which is doing similar...

It's been a long and hard road for NASA's Messenger Probe as it studied the surface of Mercury for the last four years. That journey, however, will come to an end today, after NASA announced that the...

Mankind's fascination with watches capable of more than simply telling the time is nothing new. But recently, our collective interest in intelligent timepieces has spiked, and we have more and more...

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Thursday, April 30, 2015

Grooveshark's illegal music streaming service is extinct

Mozilla plans to drop HTTP support to make the web more secure

Tesla wants its Powerwall to save the grid and your bank account

Daily Roundup: Apple Watch review, Windows 10 and more!

Ford explains why Sync supports Apple and Google car apps

Xbox One game streaming on Windows 10 is a killer app

Here's what happens when a lithium-ion battery overheats

Where to watch Tesla's 'The Missing Piece' livestream

Microsoft wants third-party apps for its fitness tracker

Turn your home into a haunted house with AR game 'Night Terrors'

Our first close look at Microsoft's HoloLens

Roman school kids give the Pope a drone of his own

'OK Google, Shazam this song'

Windows 10 'on track' for summer on PCs, other platforms come later

Microsoft can guess your age using facial recognition

Valve releases a kit for making virtual reality apps

California ACLU chapter unveils police-monitoring video app

Engadget Live is back and headed to Boston, LA and Austin!

Obama's 2013 'BRAIN' initiative results in remote-controlled mice

Uber's panic button can let cops in India know where you are

Department of Energy 3D prints an all-electric Shelba Cobra

JXE Streams: Acid Nerve teaches us how to topple 'Titan Souls'

These surrealist games melt more than clocks

Samsung outs Level On wireless headphones for untethered listening

Living with Samsung's Galaxy Note Edge in an S6 world

Waze will tweet if there's unusual traffic in your area

Apple and IBM customize iPads to help the elderly in Japan

Jeff Bezos' first proper test rocket has successfully launched

NASA's Messenger probe will crash into Mercury at 3:30pm ET today

Apple Watch review: a status symbol for iOS devotees

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