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As if the Hyperloop wasn't enough to give you a geek crush on Elon Musk, his desire to build the Iron Man hologram UI should be. Elon Musk may just be having a laugh on us but we're pretty excited nonetheless because...well, Elon Musk.

According to the latest news from Google, the Android app rules for device interference and in-game purchases are about to get tighter. Google is in the process of cleaning up the Play store to make sure users aren't troubled by "dirty apps."

According to news from TechCrunch, Instagram has recently acquired Luma.io in an attempt to add a little something to its video service. Luma brings a host of video centric features to the table including brightness and saturation adjustment as well as image stabilization.

If you are a frequenter of Facebook then you will have noticed the constant prompts to "gift" someone something when it is their birthday or anniversary or...well, anything really. The Facebook physical gifting program has only been around for about a year and apparently within that year the program has not been as successful as Facebook had hoped.

Have you ever wondered just whether you could fit your life in to 100 square feet? No? Few people actually have, but when faced with very little space in his studio apartment, Swiss designer Till Könneker did just that.

Today, Microsoft made the announcement that within the next year, Steve Ballmer (who has been with Microsoft since 1980, and has been CEO since 2000,) will retire. Ballmer is staying on board for the next twelve months so that a team of Microsoft representatives (including Bill Gates) can find an appropriate replacement for the position of CEO.

For the past 20 years, astronomers have been refining a camera that promised the sharpest pictures possible of the night sky. The new camera is now being deployed at the high altitude Magellan telescope in Chile's Atacama desert.

Officially mentioned at E3, the Project Spark game builder piqued our interest but with more details being released from Gamescom 2013. Gamescom brought plenty of details on the game creation project and let future game designers see just what they would be looking at when the project is released. Take a look at some of the highlights from the Project Spark Gamescom presentation.

According to the latest headlines, Mountain View has applied for a patent for a technology that will edit your smartphone's security settings based upon your location.

Earlier today we shared a video taken at Gamescom 2013 of the PS4 dashboard. Well, now we have another sneak peek at what you can expect from the XBox One. Engadget team members had the opportunity to sit down with the XBox / Microsoft team at Gamescom 2013 and get a tour of the XBox One dashboard.