Former President Bill Clinton acknowledged today that the Texas and Ohio primaries could make or break Hillary Clinton's candidacy.

The Dynamo and Galaxy are among the four-team field in the exhibition tournament, which begins today. The Galaxy will open against Japan's Gamba Osaka and the Dynamo faces Sydney FC from Australia.

Houston police are asking the public to help them find the men responsible for two recent armed robberies at East End gas stations.

More than 330 people have died while in police custody in Indian-controlled Kashmir over the past 18 years, official figures show

Amazon is going to take the unusually forward-thinking step of promoting Blu-ray "more prominently" on its site over HD DVD. The good news for those of you who wanna expand your movie collection for dirt cheap is that they're going to keep selling HD DVD stuff for the time being. [CNN Money]

When I was a kid and would get dragged to the mall by my parents, I would always gravitate to stores like Sharper Image. These gadget-stuffed stores probably never actually got a sale out of me, but they were stuffed to the gills with impractical and expensive gadgets for me to ogle, and there was generally an expensive, ultimately-uncomfortable massage chair near the entrance that lured me in every time. Sadly (I guess), it's now the end of an e
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Here's a great idea for anyone who loves books and doesn't have enough apartment space or a Kindle: a "secret staircase" made of English oak, lined with books left, right and center, leading to a loft bedroom in a Victorian 1898 apartments block. galleryPost('leoniestair', 5, ''); The 70m2 apartment was remodeled by London-based Levitate Architects, who created "a new bedroom level and increasing the floor area of the flat by approximately one
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Look, I know that you're all about protecting your most sensitive of data, but a program that will destroy it if your computer is moved seems more likely to result in accidental deletion than actual protection. Sure, if you install it on a tower you'll probably be OK unless someone moves it to clean or plug something in, but the first time your kid moves your laptop into the living room and erases all of your banking info from the last decade you
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Sometimes, you just want a steak and you don't want to go through a whole process to get it. Who wants to light the grill just so you can have one measly steak? Why make a whole production out of it? What you need, my friend, is a steak toaster. OK, so it's not called the steak toaster, it's called the Ariete SteakHouse Indoor Grill, but that's pretty much what it is. It holds your hunk of meat vertically, keeping the heating elements on the sid
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Filed under: Desktops, LaptopsLook, we sense the Vista hate out there, but frankly we think it's your own dang business what OS you choose to run. If Vista SP1 is rocking your world right now, we say more power to you, if XP is more your pace then you're certainly not alone, and if you're still trying to install Firefox on Haiku we feel your pain. That said, XP users are getting a bit of love this week, since Microsoft just made Service Pack 3 Re
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Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment After what seems like ages, the deadlock between HD DVD and Blu-ray has finally been broken, and as you undoubtedly know, high-definition film lovers everywhere are now scrambling to figure out which BD player would suit them best. 'Course, the easy answer is Sony's Profile 2.0-capable PlayStation 3, but if you've got a higher-end home theater, things aren't necessarily that simple -- there are some pretty bi
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Filed under: Cellphones, Features If you've been feeling like you don't have enough Palm in your diet, maybe it's time to look into the Centro for AT&T. Not sure? Then perhaps our handy unboxing and hands-on could help cement your decision. Head on over to Engadget Mobile where it's all going down, big time.  Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Filed under: Gaming, Handhelds First things first -- Americans can keep dreaming on this one, as we're looking at yet another curious creation that probably won't wander far beyond the borders of South Korea. MyRacer's MF101 handheld can certainly play nice with a few audio / video formats -- AVI, MP3, WMA, WAV, JPEG and BMP, for starters -- but the control pad flanking each side of the 2.4-inch 320 x 240 resolution display gives away its true ca
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Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment digg_url = 'http://digg.com/hardware/Two_years_battle_between_HD_DVD_and_Blu_ray_a_retrospective'; It's been a long, hard journey to get to this point, but at long last, the format war between HD DVD and Blu-ray is over. Sure, we've got a somewhat clearer view of how things will pan out going forward, but we figured it prudent to take a step back and really scope out how we got to this point. If you're intere
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Filed under: Announcements, Features We're creeping up on the Oscars, which means it must also be time for you to vote in the 2007 Engadget Awards! Based on your nominations (and a couple of our own) we've compiled a list of over 150 gadgets and technologies that made 2007 the blockbuster year it was for consumer electronics.Votes will be tallied until Saturday, March 1st; after we've checked for abuse we'll publish the results alongside our own
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Filed under: Cellphones After yesterday's barrage of unlimited calling plans left us all terribly underwhelmed, it seems as if Sprint is hoping to emerge as the knight in shining armor by undercutting the oh-so-popular $99 price point. According to unspecified "analysts," the carrier is gearing up to "offer flat-rate calling plans at up to a 40-percent discount to its rivals," meaning that yappers could talk 'til their batteries died (and then s
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Cars and trucks piled up in a chain-reaction wreck today on a slippery section of Interstate 94 in northern Indiana , closing a six-mile stretch of the highway's westbound lanes, police said.