Hasta La Gadget!

Austin, Texas is loaded to the gills with geeks of every shape and size, and we’re here too! We’re parked at the city’s convention center for a day filled with A-list SXSW speakers, including Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX fame, former Vice President Al Gore and the ace team from Leap Motion. We’ll be liveblogging several events today, and bringing you hands-ons and interviews throughout the weekend and early next week. Head over to our event page for a full rundown of our SXSW posts, galleries and videos, and be sure to check out our liveblogs, kicking off with Leap Motion at 1:30PM ET, then followed by Elon Musk at 3:00PM ET and Al Gore at 4:30PM ET. Oh, and if you’re in Austin tonight, don’t forget to drop by our very first Engadget+gdgt Live event. We’ll see you there!

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It’s not quite as traditional as baseball and apple pie, but you’ve got to start somewhere. Following last year’s success, Google is once again hosting a Presidential Google+ chat days after the State of the Union address, on February 14th at 4:50PM Eastern. The Fireside Hangout will see President Obama answer the most voted-for questions from Americans live, with a seasoned panel joining him for the discussion. It’s arguably one of our better chances at getting answers about policies that we wouldn’t get from a formal speech — as such, those who can put aside nostalgia for old-fashioned Fireside Chats will likely get their fill at the source link.

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The Las Vegas Convention Center’s expansive exhibition space may not be open for another five days, but we’re already on site, gearing up for the CES madness to come and setting up shop in our temporary headquarters — that beautiful trailer just above. Sure, we have a pretty good idea of which new mobile gadgets we might see — and what products not to expect — and it’s pretty much a given that Windows 8 will be just about everywhere, but as always the show is bound to bring some surprises. For now, though, we’ll all have to sit tight as thousands of exhibitors put the final lavish touches on their enormous booths. In the meantime, get a taste of the pre-show scene at the LVCC in the gallery just below.

Zach Honig contributed to this report.

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Citing this as the “fastest upgrade rate in history — that we’re aware of,” Tim Cook has announced on stage in San Jose that 200 million iOS devices have been updated to iOS 6. If you’re still on the last version, are you feeling the peer pressure?

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Apple: 200 million devices already upgraded to iOS 6 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Talk about building up the tension! Yep, our favorite Austrian daredevil is back out on the New Mexico desert, hoping the weather will hold, and he can finally fall into the record books. Don’t forget, you can catch up on Felix Baumgartner’s long journey to Roswell in our project overview, but if you’re just here for the jump, no problem, as you can watch right here too. Currently conditions are looking like they might just go in Baumgartner’s favor, despite some initial concerns about wind levels. But, as we found out earlier in the week, anything can change in an instant. Hold on to your hat (and your breakfast), and hop past the break to watch the events unfold live.

Update: Some spoilers lurk ahead if you didn’t get to watch live and wanted to catch the event for yourself, so switch articles if you want to catch replays later on. For everyone else: it’s a success! Despite some worries about heat going to the helmet visor that threatened the attempt, Baumgartner has at least unofficially broken records both for the highest-ever manned balloon flight and the all-important altitude record for a jump, either of which respectively occurred just over and just under 128,000 feet. Baumgartner also broke the speed record for freefall, although he was just short of Joe Kittinger’s 4-minute, 36-second freefall duration. There’s a media event still ahead that should provide more details, but for now we’d just like to welcome Felix back to Earth.

Continue reading We have lift off: Felix Baumgartner and Red Bull Stratos launch for record-breaking space jump, watch right here (update: done!)

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We have lift off: Felix Baumgartner and Red Bull Stratos launch for record-breaking space jump, watch right here (update: done!) originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 14 Oct 2012 11:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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