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The festive lights, time off and cute scarfs can only conceal the truth for so long: Winter can be pretty bleak. I don't mean to be a downer, but it's cold all of the time, dark most of the time and this lasts far beyond the most wonderful time of the year. Here at Engadget, we've tried so many tools and products to make winter more bearable from therapy lamps to heaters. We've invested in tea sets, wrapped ourselves in heated blankets and learned to grow herbs indoors — really, anything that will make thes
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BYD’s 595,413 Q4 deliveries indicate rising Chinese EV dominance globally. Tesla’s annual sales decline signals power shift towards Asia. Chinese EV dominance in the global automotive sector reached a new milestone as BYD surpassed Tesla in quarterly deliveries at the end of 2024. The transformation of China’s automotive sector towards global leader reflects years of... Read more » Read more ›
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Capcom's Resident Evil 4 is "the fastest-selling Resident Evil game in history", topping nine million sales since its release in March 2023. Read more Read more ›
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The design of this year's next-generation iPhone 17 will allegedly feature a smoother transition between the edges of the device and the back cover, owing to Apple's use of a new glass-and-metal splicing material process. That's according to the Weibo-based leaker Fixed Focus Digital. In a post on Monday, the Chinese leaker claimed that suppliers say the iPhone 17 is adopting a "process overhaul," suggesting that Apple has developed new... Read more ›
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Apple is once again under scrutiny after its AI-powered notification system generated false news summaries on Friday, including an erroneous claim about a darts player winning a championship and a fabricated story about tennis star Rafael Nadal. BBC News reported that Apple Intelligence incorrectly notified users that Luke Littler had won the PDC World Championship before the final match had even taken place. In a separate incident on the same... Read more ›
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Apple supplier LG Display is adjusting its main OLED production line over concerns about lower-than-expected OLED iPad Pro demand, with the company now planning to repurpose the facility to manufacture iPhone displays, according to The Elec. The production line currently manufactures OLED panels for tablets and PCs, but has been experiencing reduced operation rates due to sluggish demand for Apple's OLED iPad Pro models. As a result, LG Display plans... Read more ›
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British bookselling boss James Daunt is also considering a future initial public offering of Barnes & Noble and Waterstones in London or New York. Read more ›
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has a net worth of $160 billion. He has used his fortune to buy properties, cars, and donate to philanthropic causes. Read more ›
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There's a chance you're eligible to get some of your work-from-home internet expenses back but don't count on it. Read more ›
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The Verge LG and Samsung have both announced their 2025 smart TVs at CES this weekend, and some of them will include access to Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant. Both TV manufacturers are chasing the artificial intelligence hype train with dedicated AI sections on their smart TVs that include a shortcut to a Copilot web app. LG is adding an entire AI section to its TVs and rebranding its remote to... Read more ›
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The rental company said last year it would sell 30,000 electric cars, including Teslas, Polestars, and Volvos, due to repair and maintenance costs. Read more ›
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The Mecha Comet is made for hackers and makers, running Debian with a custom touch UI and lots of upgradeability. Read more ›
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If you are one of the many who play Wordle every day (I still like to use it to flex the ol' mental muscles with my morning cup of tea), you may well be interested to discover the one word in 2024 that stumped so many of us, it broke a whopping 5.6m streaks. Read more Read more ›
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Two of the most powerful forces in the AI industry are set to collide this year: Elon Musk and OpenAI's Sam Altman. Here's what you need to know. Read more ›
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Candidates risk losing an interviewer's interest when rambling about themself. An ex-MBA admissions director shares how to draw them in instead. Read more ›
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The Sonic film franchise has now surpassed $1bn at the global box office, following the release of Sonic the Hedgehog 3 prior to Christmas. Read more Read more ›
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Inside Big Gambling's AI gold rush: 'We see every single bet.' Read more ›
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Servers for WWE 2K23 are closing down today, leaving WWE 2K24 as the only game in the long-running series left with online functionality. Read more Read more ›
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In fact, HTML is the most significant computing language ever developed. Underestimate it at your peril. Read more ›
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The Redmi 14C 5G is a ₹10K phone, which claims to have the segment’s most efficient 4nm chipset and the biggest 120Hz display. And it has big shoes to fill too, as it is the successor to the top 5G phone of H1 2024 in India (in terms of shipments, data by Canalys). Let’s start from the top. The Redmi 14C 5G will go on sale on January 10 (this... Read more ›
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The new TVs utilize AI to enhance low-resolution images, personalize the experience based on the detected user, and more. Read more ›
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Tesla has reported its first-ever decline in annual deliveries. The total number of deliveries for 2024 hovers at around 1.78 million, but the company delivered 1.81 million vehicles in 2023. Company shares fell by as much as seven percent at the news, but has since rallied a couple of points. This follows similar news from Q1 of 2024, but that was just for a single quarter. Q4 showed a slight... Read more ›
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It’s no secret that Russia has been slowly working towards eschewing as much Western technology as it can and developing its own, and its latest effort seems to be related to video games. On December 25, Anton Gorelkin, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, revealed some information on a domestic video game console being developed by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, as reported by TechSpot.... Read more ›
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There’s no longer any question that Threads and Bluesky have created the most viable alternatives to the platform once known as Twitter. But while the two services may share some of the same goals, they’ve shown very different visions for how text-based social networks should operate. Threads, of course, is controlled by Meta, which is controlled by Mark Zuckerberg. And though the company has claimed to embrace “public conversation,” it... Read more ›
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The festive lights, time off and cute scarfs can only conceal the truth for so long: Winter can be pretty bleak. I don't mean to be a downer, but it's cold all of the time, dark most of the time and this lasts far beyond the most wonderful time of the year. Here at Engadget, we've tried so many tools and products to make winter more bearable from therapy lamps... Read more ›
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Squid Game has set a new high for Netflix's television programming. Variety reported that the second season of the Korean show drew in 68 million views over its first four days. That's the biggest debut for a TV show on the streaming platform, besting the 50.1 million set by Wednesday in 2022. The first season of Squid Game also held the crown as the top-watched Netflix series for a while;... Read more ›
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Meta has nuked a bunch of its AI-generated profiles from Facebook Instagram, the company confirmed, after the AI characters prompted widespread outrage and ridicule from users on social media. The AI-generated profiles, which were labeled as “AI managed by Meta,” launched in September of 2023, rolling out alongside the company’s celebrity-branded AI chatbots (also discontinued). Meta doesn’t seem to have updated any of these profiles for several months, and the... Read more ›
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You can now play Jeopardy! on your Fire TV Stick. Volley, the developer of the Alexa version of the game show, launched a new edition for Amazon’s streaming device on Thursday. Unlike the voice assistant edition, this one lets you see the clues onscreen, which I have to imagine makes it much more enjoyable. Of course, you also get a familiar view of the 60-year-old show’s iconic game board. The... Read more ›
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VR headsets have jumped into a whole lot of homes these past few years, primarily due to Meta’s regular releases, Sony’s PSVR 2 and PC-adjacent products from HTC, HP, Vive and others. Many of these headsets are great on their own, but they really shine when outfitted with accessories. However, the industry is squarely in its “wild west” phase right now, so it can be tough to know what’s worth... Read more ›
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Sony Be it for the Walkman portables and Trinitron TVs of old or the PlayStation consoles, Alpha cameras and superlative headphones of the twenty-first century, Sony has long been a mainstay at CES. But for the past couple of years at the world's biggest electronics trade show, Sony has opted to focus on a different field: Automotive. The Afeela electric vehicle dominated Sony's 2023 and 2024 CES press conferences, and... Read more ›
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Mobile gaming may still be thought of as a casual pastime, but it doesn’t have to be that way. There are plenty of action titles like Call of Duty Mobile, Fortnite, Dead Cells and PUBG Mobile to tackle, and you don’t have to settle for imprecise touch controls. When it comes to close combat you’re going to want to invest in a good mobile gaming controller, and these are the... Read more ›
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