One thing I can tell you about my big sister Jodi is that when I was a kid, she regularly let me stand up on the passenger seat of her powder blue Volkswagen Beetle and stick my upper body out of her sun roof as she drove me home from school. I?d throw my arms [...]

Screen Grabs chronicles the uses (and misuses) of real-world gadgets in today’s movies and TV. Send in your sightings (with screen grab!) to screengrabs at engadget dot com. We’d be lying if we said we were frenemies with Gossip Girl’s goings-on (one of them’s in the Pretty Reckless, right?). Fom the picture above, it looks [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) ? Wall Street dipped on Thursday as housing and financial stocks declined after weaker-than-expected housing data gave investors reason to pause after a recent rally. Housing-related stocks declined after data showed sales of new single-family homes fell for the first time in four months in December and were shy of Wall Street [...]

Are you among the Alienware buyers who plunked down cold, hard cash for a new M14X, M17X, or M18X preceding the launch of Ivy Bridge, but can’t stomach the thought of being stuck with Intel’s second gen CPUs? Good news, gaming friends, because if your laptop was ordered, but hasn’t yet shipped, Dell’s doing you [...]

CHICAGO ? Exposure to the chemical bisphenol-A before birth could affect girls’ behavior at age 3, according to the latest study on potential health effects of the compound used in the manufacturing of some plastic drink bottles and food can linings. Preschool-aged girls whose mothers had relatively high urine levels of BPA during pregnancy scored [...]