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Podcast: A chat with the directors of ‘A Glitch in the Matrix’ and ‘Users’

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Are we living in a simulation? That’s what Rodney Ascher aims to explore with his new documentary, A Glitch in the Matrix, which premiered at Sundance this week. In this special interview episode, we chat with Ascher about how he broke down such a co...

Our favorite films and VR experiences at Sundance 2021

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Here’s what we’ve learned from covering the 2021 Sundance: Virtual film festivals can be awkward, but it’s still an absolute rush to get an early look at some of the year’s most interesting films. And unlike most other film events, Sundance also inve...

Engadget Podcast: Virtual Sundance, Bezos leaves Amazon and the Apple Car

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We didn’t have to travel to Utah to drown ourselves in content from the Sundance Film Festival. This week, Devindra and Engadget’s Managing Editor, Terrence O’Brien, chat about all of the wild movies, VR experiences and new media projects they saw at...

‘Users’ is a fascinating meditation on life and parenting in the digital age 

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One of the earliest  images in Natalia Almada's virtuoso documentary Users is of an infant, tightly wrapped and strapped to a Snoo smart crib, robotically being rocked to sleep to the sound of manufactured white noise. By recreating many of the sensa...

In ‘Searchers’, looking for love on dating apps is a revealing journey

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Apps have taken over dating. Gone is the stigma of using a service like Match.com or OKCupid to find a partner — nowadays, finding someone via Tinder, Bumble or Hinge is the norm. Swiping mindlessly through potential lovers is so common we now do it...

Apple just paid a record $25 million to buy a Sundance movie

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Apple hasn’t been shy about spending lots of money to make TV+ a success, and that’s true even in an era when it can’t negotiate deals in person. Deadline and Variety report that Apple has bought Siân Heder’s coming-of-age tale CODA (“Children of Dea...

Disney releases interactive short ‘Baymax Dreams’ on GeForce Now

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Sundance Film Festival isn’t happening this year — not in person, anyway — so creators are finding new ways to showcase their creations. The folks at Disney, for instance, are offering an interactive short through NVIDIA’s GeForce Now, a streaming se...

YouTube wants you to film your day for a Ridley Scott documentary

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A decade after executive producer Ridley Scott and director Kevin Macdonald teamed up with YouTube for a crowdsourced documentary that captured a day on Earth, they’re making a sequel.For the follow-up to Life in a Day, they’re asking people all over...