The hacking investigation that led to the shutdown of News of the World has spread to another News International newspaper, The Times, police correspondence sent to campaigning MP Tom Watson shows. And its editor has been recalled to discuss it at the government’s hearings on media ethics…

Spaceflight start-up, SpaceX, has been demonstrating the potency of its SuperDraco rockets, testing at its own facility over in Texas. The rockets will help land its Dragon spacecraft — as demonstrated in a swish animation last year…

THQ chief executive Brian Farrell ate some major crow on his company’s analyst conference call today. “We anticipated our third fiscal quarter would be the largest in our company’s history,” Farrell said…

If you’re interested in Google’s Dart as a potential replacement for JavaScript, you might want to take a peek at Dart Synonym. The Web app was hacked together by Aaron Wheeler and Marcin Wichary of Google to “map common JavaScript idioms to Dart…

If you’re anything like me (and hopefully for your sake, you’re not), then you tend to do things –scheduling, booking, and so on — at the last minute. For we Last Minute Scramblers, some highly usable services have popped up that not only allow us to book at the last minute, but receive deals while doing so…

Apple is unintentionally censoring rap music and other explicit tracks downloaded using its iTunes Match service — by replacing them with the clean versions of the same songs. According to a report in Cult of Mac — confirmed in tests by Mashable — songs uploaded to the service with explicit lyrics are automatically replaced by the clean version of the song…

In what is becoming a ritual much like Superbowl Week itself, federal prosecutors today announced the seizure of 16 websites that offered live streaming of sporting events and 291 others that sold counterfeit sports merchandise…

Over the past four years, Facebook has acquired about 20 companies. Most of the acquisition amounts were never disclosed. Facebook’s S-1 reveals how many shares of Class A and Class B stock it issued for each acquisition…

Tim and Brian are back, live in studio, and this time out, there’ll be some Josh Fruhlinger. Feeling left out? Don’t despair — you can join along in the chat after the break.Continue reading The Engadget Podcast is live tonight at 5PM!The Engadget Podcast is live tonight at 5PM! originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:30:00 EDT…

Upverter, the fascinating open-source hardware hackers’ tool, has just launched paid accounts. With these accounts, users can hack away at their designs away from the public eye. It works a lot like Github’s private offerings, where paying users can shield their code repositories from outside eyes, if they so choose…

Google is taking new steps to identify and eliminate malware in the Android Market. Codenamed “Bouncer,” Google will now scan every new and existing app in the Market against known malware, permissions and publisher information…

You may remember the Peek, a device that showed up back in 2008 (so long ago, now!) offering nothing but email. That’s right, nothing but email in an age when smartphones were already becoming popular, and the iPhone was changing the way people thought about interacting with their data…