Home Depot has a new animatronic version of Skelly the skeleton

The Home Depot is well on its way to becoming a Spirit Halloween that also sells weed whackers. Here we are in July, and the retailer is already rolling out its Halloween product lineup. The centerpie [...]

Video Games Weekly: Summer Game Fest ends when I say so

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related to [...]

Blumhouse's horror-centric cozy game Grave Seasons will be released on August 14

The spooky, yet cozy, game Grave Seasons is coming out on August 14, which was announced at today's Xbox Partner Preview event. This is basically Stardew Valley, but set in a Lovecraftian nightma [...]

Microsoft dropped the one survey question its employees actually cared about

For years, one question in Microsoft’s internal employee survey served as a reliable pressure gauge. It asked whether staff felt they were getting a “good deal at Microsoft,” defined as “a rea [...]

Majority of Australian kids are still on banned social media platforms, study finds

Many countries are pursuing social media bans for anyone under 16, but a recent poll is putting the effectiveness of such laws into question. The Molly Rose Foundation, a charity organization that foc [...]

Video Games Weekly: Censorship and stolen puritanical valor

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related to [...]

How Heidi built production-ready AI for healthcare at global scale

Presented by MongoDBBuilding AI that is accurate, secure, and reliable is a major engineering feat for organizations subject to the compliance obligations that govern healthcare, financial services, a [...]

Australian data centres will use seven times more power by 2036

Australian data centres will take 13% of the country’s main electricity market by 2035-36, up from 3% today. That is almost a sevenfold rise in a decade, according to the Australian Energy Market Op [...]

Trump says refusing a data centre is a mistake. Abbott disagrees

Texas governor Greg Abbott says data centre companies brought the backlash on themselves. “They basically dug their own grave for the problem that’s been caused for them,” he told ABC’s Jonath [...]