Apple’s upgraded 2nd-gen AirPods Pro with USB-C are $50 off right now
Apple’s refreshed second-generation AirPods Pro are down to just $200 on Amazon in a discount almost as good as we saw during October’s Prime Day event. The deal cuts $50 off the normal price of $250. The second-generation AirPods Pro got an upgrade in September that brought improvements to durability…
The best gadgets for your pets
Whether they be cat or dog lovers, Engadget’s editors have our fair share of fur babies. With all the comfort and joy our pets have given us, we think they deserve some extra TCL and spoiling in the form of gadgets and other gifts. There’s a lot more pet tech…
NASA is launching a rocket on Sunday to study a 20,000-year-old supernova
A sounding rocket toting a special imaging and spectroscopy instrument will take a brief trip to space Sunday night to try and capture as much data as it can on a long-admired supernova remnant in the Cygnus constellation. Its target, a massive cloud of dust and gas known as the…
Instagram head says Threads is working on an API for developers
Threads was missing a lot of features users would expect from a service similar to Twitter’s (now X’s) when it launched. Over the past few months, however, it has been been rolling out more and more new features to give users a more robust experience, including polls, an easy way…
iRobot’s Roomba Combo vacuum-and-mops are up to $300 off right now
The iRobot Roomba Combo j7+ is the top 2-in-1 pick in our guide to the best robot vacuums, as it adds a retractable mop for cleaning hard floors onto a powerful robovac for carpets and other surfaces. It’s expensive at its usual list price of $1,000, but right now you…
Google paid $26 billion in 2021 for default search engine status
Vice president Prabhakar Raghavan testified Friday that Google paid $26.3 billion in 2021 for the purpose of maintaining default search engine status and acquiring traffic, Bloomberg reports. It’s likely the lion’s share of that sum went to Apple, which it has showered with exorbitant sums for many years in order…
Horror movie Barbarian is getting a video game adaptation
Barbarian is one of the more memorable horror movies of the last few years. It tells a tale of a young woman who finds that someone is already staying at her rental home. She has little choice but to stay there since nearby hotels are all booked up. That alone…
Is streaming video even still worth it?
When Netflix first unveiled its streaming video service in 2007, it felt like a miracle. Netflix’s DVD customers in the US, who were paying between $5.99 to $17.99 a month, instantly had access to 1,000 movies over a web browser. No more waiting for DVDs in the mail, no ads…
X introduces an ad-free ‘Premium+’ tier for $16 a month
X is adding two new tiers to its subscription offering, previously known as Twitter Blue. The company is adding a new, $16 per month “Premium+ tier” that eliminates ads in users’ following and “for you” timelines, in addition to the blue checkmark and other existing perks for subscribers. X is…
How to watch Apple’s Scary Fast event
Apple’s holding another streaming event on October 30 at 8PM ET. Yes, that’s in the dead of night during the spookiest of seasons. The company’s calling it a “Scary Fast” event, which certainly makes it seem like there will be some hardware announcements. You can watch the stream on YouTube,…