Girl Scout Cookies head to court

The typically tranquil spring ritual of green-clad Girl Scouts selling Samoas and Thin Mints has been rocked by drama this year.Read more... [...]

Who is the Hawk Tuah girl, and what does it mean?

A woman funnily answered a sexual question during a street interview, and the viral 'Hawk Tuah' TikTok girl was born. [...]

I think I found the most wholesome game in the Playdate Catalog

I didn’t set out to play jump rope STAR! when I picked up my Playdate this weekend. I was actually looking for something else, but lazily searched only half of the correct title and found myself st [...]

TikToks Google Maps Girl trend has us lost and strutting to Charli xcx

TikTok is strutting, looking at their Google Maps, confused, but moving along to Charli xcx's 'Girl, so confusing.' [...]

New Paramount+ series Girl Taken will rip your heart out — but its cast think this classic comedy is the perfect way to decompress after

Kicking 2026 off in the darkest tone possible, Girl Taken is this week's new chilling crime drama on Paramount+. In fact, it's so chilling, you should stream this classic comedy straight aft [...]

The Morning After: Meta teases high-spec VR headset prototypes

Meta previewed some of its latest virtual reality prototypes this week and plans to demo them at next week’s SIGGRAPH conference. The aim, according to Meta’s blog post, is to offer VR experiences [...]

The year age verification laws came for the open internet

When the nonprofit Freedom House recently published its annual report, it noted that 2025 marked the 15th straight year of decline for global internet freedom. The biggest decline, after Georgia and G [...]

Engadget Podcast: iPhone 16e review and Amazon's AI-powered Alexa+

The keyword for the iPhone 16e seems to be "compromise." In this episode, Devindra chats with Cherlynn about her iPhone 16e review and try to figure out who this phone is actually for. Also, [...]

What we listened to in 2025

If streaming services’ year-in-review campaigns have shown us anything, it’s that we’ve spent a staggering amount of time drowning out the hum of everyday life with music, podcasts and audio ser [...]