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At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, which kicks off this week, Roborock, a Chinese manufacturer of robot vacuums and other household cleaning appliances, has unveiled a new robotic vacuum model with a foldable robotic arm. It had already piqued my curiosity, but now I really want one.
The OmniGrip arm has five-axis movement and can lift objects under 300 grams, like socks and dog toys. It marks objects it can lift while cleaning the floor and then circles back to pick them up when it’s done. It even cleans the areas
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Fact-checkers claim they had no idea the company was going to end their partnerships and are scrambling to figure out the financial implications of the move. Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images As part of Meta’s sweeping changes to content moderation announced today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that the company will also be moving its content moderation teams from California to Texas to “help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content,” he wrote on Threads. “We’re going to move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and... Read more ›
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Meta rolled out a number of changes to its “Hateful Conduct” policy Tuesday as part of a sweeping overhaul of its approach toward content moderation. Read more ›
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Meta ends US fact-checking partnerships, sparking an emergency meeting by the International Fact-Checking Network. Read more ›
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China EV sales projected to reach 12 million units in 2025, overtaking conventional vehicle sales. Government incentives and fierce domestic competition drive EV adoption. Sales of Chinese electric vehicles are on track to achieve a milestone in 2025, with EVs expected to outsell traditional combustion engine cars in the country for the first time. The... Read more » Read more ›
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Mark Zuckerberg announcea Meta's shift to community notes, replacing fact-checkers and easing content restrictions. Read more ›
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Curious to know what wild ideas Sony might be pondering for the future of gaming? Well, you're in luck: it's just unveiled new conceptual technology designed to ramp up immersion by sticking players inside a TV box and squirting smells into the room. So if you've ever wanted a whiff of Kratos after a hard day's slaying, your dreams are now one step closer to reality. Read more Read more ›
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Assassin's Creed Shadows features a rejig of the series' usual controls due to the addition of being able to go prone. Read more Read more ›
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"We need Greenland for national security purposes," President-elect Trump said during a Tuesday press conference focused on the economy. Read more ›
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Former Annapurna Interactive staff - who departed the acclaimed video game publisher last September as part of a "mass exodus" - have reportedly established a new company and will be taking over indie label Private Division's portfolio, which was sold by Take-Two last year. Read more Read more ›
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Mark Zuckerberg announced sweeping changes to the way that Meta moderates its social media sites. Read more ›
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Despite its new plan to loosen content moderation across its apps, Meta says its policies differ for internal and external discussion. Read more ›
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The Palisades Fire is threatening hundreds of homes and forcing some residents to evacuate on foot. The fire grew quickly amid a powerful windstorm. Read more ›
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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League developer Rocksteady has quietly suffered another round of layoffs, this time just before the end of 2024. Read more Read more ›
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The most important part of the press conference was over in the first ten minutes. Read more ›
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Image Experts warn that Meta’s decision to end its third-party fact-checking program could allow disinformation and hate to fester online and permeate the real world. The company announced today that it’s phasing out a program launched in 2016 where it partners with independent fact-checkers around the world to identify and review misinformation across its social media platforms. Meta is replacing the program with... Read more ›
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Meta says it’s seen the shift to Community Notes ‘work on X.’ | Image: The Verge Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are ditching third-party fact-checkers in favor of a Community Notes program inspired by X, according to an announcement penned by Meta’s new Trump-friendly policy chief Joe Kaplan. Meta is also moving its trust and safety teams from California to Texas. “We’ve seen this approach work on X – where they... Read more ›
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Afeela is coming back for a curtain call. After dominating the Sony press conference on the opening night of CES 2025, the debut EV from Sony Honda Mobility (a joint venture between the two Japanese concerns) is getting its own breakout event today. What to expect at Afeela's CES 2025 press conference We know a lot more about the Afeela 1 than we did 24 hours ago, thanks to Sony's... Read more ›
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The X50 Ultra robot vacuum from Dreame has two little legs it can deploy to clear some small obstacles. Read more ›
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UFC CEO Dana White is joining Meta's board, the company announced today. The addition of the mixed-martial arts impresario jives with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's well-documented UFC fandom, but also the larger strategy Meta appears to be using heading into a second Trump term: tacking right. That's not to say White's seat on the board is typical, however. Most of Meta's current board members work in the tech industry. The... Read more ›
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HMD took to CES this year to reveal a satellite-based rescue device called the OffGrid. This is a small emergency gadget to keep outdoor enthusiasts safe while exploring remote parts of the world. The OffGrid uses the L Band satellite radio spectrum to allow users “to connect directly to satellites, even in the world’s most challenging environments.” The device can send texts, which is done via an affiliated app, and... 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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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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If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to upgrade your Kindle Scribe, now wouldn’t be a bad time — Amazon is running its first sale on the new model, which has only been out for a month. Normally $450, the 2024 Kindle Scribe is 19 percent off, bringing the 64GB model down to $365. With the latest generation, Amazon tweaked the appearance of the tablet and added some AI... Read more ›
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It's been ten years since LG introduced its Gram line of ultra thin and light laptops, and despite my early skepticism about its longevity and build quality, the company continues to make new models regularly. It's expanded the portfolio to offer pro variants, clamshells and 2-in-1s, and in keeping with every laptop maker in recent years, LG is now infusing the Gram Pros with more of its own... you guessed... Read more ›
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AMD’s CES 2025 presser is nearly upon us and rumors are swirling about new graphics cards, CPUs and more. The company regularly uses CES to promote upcoming chips and this year should be no different. To that end, the organization unveiled the AI-centric Ryzen 8000G desktop chips at CES 2024. What to expect at AMD's CES 2025 press conference Rumors have been flying for weeks regarding AMD’s probable CES 2025... 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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