Our Top Posts of the Decade: A Dubious List for a Meaningless Timeline

As far as we can tell, the 2010s were nothing close to what most of us expected. Instead of flying cars, we got half-baked semi-autonomous vehicles. Instead of social media birthing kumbaya, it fueled genocide and helped erode the foundations of democracy and reality itself. Rather than tackle the impending doom of…

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New York City Education Official Facing Child Sex Crime Charges

David Hay was arrested at a Wisconsin airport after allegedly trying to arrange sex with an underage boy.

ProtonMail debuts an encrypted calendar app

ProtonMail is known for its encrypted email service, which it offers as a more secure alternative to products like Google’s Gmail. In recent years, the company started by CERN researchers has begun to branch out further, offering encrypted contacts t…

Everything Engadget played to wrap up 2019

Welcome back to Engadget’s Gaming IRL, a monthly segment where we run down what our editors are playing. For the most part, we spent the slow month of December catching up on the great games of the year, including Life is Strange 2, Astrologaster, Hy…

What The Witcher Gets Wrong (and Right) About Disability Narratives

The world of fantasy has been one of the few genres to regularly include disabled characters, though this inclusion has always come with the concept of disfigurement and grotesquerie. One of the most famous disabled fantasy characters, George R.R. Martin’s Tyrion Lannister, is described in the first volume of the A

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In 2020, Here's How You Can Help Address the Climate Crisis

This is the time of year when we talk about nice things. Hopeful things.

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Samsung Is Making the Best Phones

Last year after a somewhat lackluster product cycle, I said Samsung couldn’t afford to hold back anymore. And in 2019, it seems Samsung took that message to heart because it released some of the most exciting phone tech we’ve seen in the last 12 months.

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CMAs SHAKEUP: Carrie Underwood Will No Longer Host The Country Music Show

The singer, who has hosted the country music show for the last 12 years, explained it’s time for her to step aside.

People Are Saying Their Coffee Machines Sound Like Britney Spears’ ‘Stronger’

You might think your coffee is strong… but is it stronger than yesterday?

Smoke app brings the Steam store to your Apple Watch

If you can’t bear to be away from Steam for a moment least you miss one of its famously great sales, then Smoke, a new app for the Apple Watch, has you covered.