The Morning After: Amazon’s accelerated one-day shipping

Goodbye doesn’t mean forever.The gadgets that refuse to dieAs Sonos most recently proved, your gadgets weren’t meant to live forever. Any Engadget editor will point out his or her drawer or cupboard (or wardrobe) filled with tech from yesteryear. Not every device is an iPhone or an Amazon Echo, and for things that didn’t quite…

After Math: Anything worth doing is worth overdoing

Did the Curiosity rover need to dutifully snap 1,200 images of the rugged Martian landscape? Not any more than the effort it took NASA engineers to stitch those individual shots into a mammoth 1.8-billion pixel panorama. But they did it anyway because science is awesome and it’s not like Curiosity has much else to do…