Gadget News

Welcome to Weekends with Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines from the past seven days -- all handpicked by the editors here at the site.

We've seen many structures that offer shelter while hanging from tree branches over the years, but the Baobed treehouse adds some extra versatility to the equation.

It took four tries, but SpaceX's CRS-3 mission is on its way to the International Space Station .

If you've never contacted your congress person then you might not realize how difficult our politicians have made it to get a hold of them.

In space, no one can hear you hit the Moon at near-hypersonic speed. Today, NASA's Ames Research Center announced that the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer made a controlled impact on the far side of the Moon some time between 9:30 and 10:30 pm PDT on Thursday, bringing to an end its mission to study the lunar atmosphere.

Do you get frustrated filling out those online forms with jumbled letters to prove that you're human, only to get them wrong? They're called CAPTCHA puzzles and are designed to be difficult for computers to crack.

Let's be honest: Wireless speakers are a dime a dozen. The options are seemingly endless, and new ones arrive on an almost daily basis.

Milk Music happens to be a fully customizable, free and ad-free music radio service that boasts of an intuitive user interface, delivering more than 200 stations for your listening pleasure.

Last week at the NAB show, FCC head Tom Wheeler pushed broadcasters to loosen their grip on spectrum that the agency plans to auction off to give wireless internet room to grow.

We have heard about Google's Project Loon before, where this initiative intends to bring Internet connectivity to the masses using air balloons that float up high in the sky.

We all like the idea of getting something for nothing, but there are usually consequences involved with that line of thinking.

It's easy to find fast storage if you have a big camera, but not so much if you have a very tiny mirrorless cam that uses microSD cards -- more often than not, you're stuck in the slow lane.

It seems that Amazon Fire TV's Voice Search will be on the receiving end of an expansion when it comes to their partners' roll, where from this summer onward, the likes of Hulu Plus, Crackle, and SHOWTIME ANYTIME will be part of a unified voice search effort.

DID you know you don't just have to buy Apple stuff at its stores? There's a whole heap of other awesome kit to see if you can dodge the blue shirts.

The Cesium 133 prototype currently sports a carbon fiber case, which keeps its weight down to that of a regular wristwatch There are plenty of atomic watches available that can keep time accurately by receiving a radio signal from an atomic clock, but there hasn't ever been a true atomic wristwatch which boasts its own atomic clock.

Zynga's FarmVille was once very popular . You would receive dozens of requests from people on Facebook who played the game.

MIT proposes building floating nuclear power plants located 5 to 7 miles into the ocean, enabling the nuclear power plants to ride out a tsunami without sustaining damage The most frightening part of a tsunami hitting a nuclear power plant is what comes after - radioactive leaks that contaminate the water around the plant are exceedingly difficult ... (more)

A Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign is raising money for a new type of watersport.

Digital Projection International has announced the forthcoming release of what's claimed to be the first production high-brightness laser projector in the world.

We have heard about the Heartbleed bug in recent times, as well as denials by at least one entity concerning knowledge about the existence of such a vulnerability without informing the masses.