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DotLumen founder Cornel Amariei describes his product as a “self driving” system to enable blind and low-vision people a way to get around. It’s essentially the electronic equivalent to a guide dog, helping users avoid obstacles when walking around. The Romanian company turned up to CES 2025 in Las Vegas armed with prototypes of its headset that it hopes will make blind people’s lives a lot easier.
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LA wildfires, including massive Palisades and Eaton fires, continue to devastate the region with zero containment, as officials warn of looting risks. Read more ›
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Game of Thrones star Rory McCann may be stepping into the saber of the late Ray Stevenson. Read more ›
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By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court handed a largely symbolic, but still politically significant, loss to President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday evening. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, both Republicans, voted with all three of the Court’s Democrats. The case, known as Trump v. New York, involves Trump’s felony convictions for […] Read more ›
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The Getty Villa remained standing as fires razed homes around it. Getty staff have been doing simple yard work all year that homeowners should follow. Read more ›
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On 26th July 2024, performers from the US actors union SAG-AFTRA began a strike after failing to reach a deal with major video game companies over the use of AI. Negotiations had been ongoing for more than a year and a half; now, six months later, the strike continues, delaying game production and leaving actors out of work. Read more Read more ›
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Satellite images from January 6th to 8th show just how quickly the California wildfires spread and the sheer scale of the devastation. Read more ›
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We attended a small roundtable session with AMD executives at CES 2025 in Las Vegas and asked the company for details about its continuing shortages of its flagship gaming-optimized CPU, the Ryzen 9 9800X3D, currently the uncontested best CPU for gaming, and when we can expect demand to improve. Read more ›
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In November last year, Amazon officially announced a Mass Effect TV show is in development. Now, voice actor Jennifer Hale told Eurogamer she'd love to be part of it and believes the original cast should be involved too. Read more Read more ›
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It's probably not a huge surprise to hear at this point, but Sony has confirmed The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered will - like numerous other single-player PlayStation games before it - require a PSN account in order to play when it launches for PC this April. Read more Read more ›
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Wildfires and brush fires can quickly spread into neighborhoods in large part because flying embers start little fires that then set homes ablaze. Read more ›
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Six minutes of developer Splash Damage's unreleased Transformers: Reactivate have leaked online following the studio's announcement earlier this week it was ending development. Read more Read more ›
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BioShock creator Ken Levine wanted developer Irrational Games to continue, and didn't expect publisher Take-Two to shut it down. Read more Read more ›
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If you thought 2025 might finally be the year you get through that pesky games backlog, signs aren't looking good. You can now chuck more onto the pile, with Amazon having announced it's bringing 16 more titles to Prime Gaming in January. Read more Read more ›
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Edgar Maddison Welch believed children were being abused in a non-existent basement of the pizza restaurant. Read more ›
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Nintendo's determined streak of announcing absolutely anything but Switch 2 continues today with the news its beloved Game Boy handheld is getting the Lego treatment later this year. Read more Read more ›
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OCBC has become the first bank in Singapore offering tokenised bonds. APAC leads in digital asset adoption, with 29% of 2024’s cryptocurrency trades. OCBC has appeared as the first bank in Singapore to offer bespoke tokenised bonds to corporate accredited investors (corporate AIs) – businesses with net assets exceeding SG$ 10 million. The tokenised bonds... Read more » Read more ›
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The US Supreme Court rejected Trump's request to delay sentencing in his New York hush-money case. He'll face zero penalties and can attend virtually. Read more ›
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This is the alert that inadvertently went out to everyone in LA County, | Screenshot: Sheena Visani After two days of dealing with wildfires that have burned thousands of acres, residents across Los Angeles County received a wildfire evacuation alert on Thursday afternoon that was a mistake. Shortly after, officials sent a follow-up alert saying that the notice was intended only for people near the Kenneth Fire in Woodland Hills.... Read more ›
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Ubisoft has said it is delaying Assassin's Creed Shadows again, as the company explores sale options. Read more 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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NVIDIA is launching a native GeForce Now app on the Steam Deck and major mixed reality headsets including the Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest 3 and 3S, the company said at CES 2025. That will bring NVIDIA's more than 2,100 titles to those devices, including two AAA Microsoft titles arriving later in 2025. Valve's Steam Deck already had limited beta support for GeForce Now via the Chrome browser and... 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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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced a major shift in the company's approach to moderation and speech. Meta is ditching its fact-checking program and moving to an X-style Community Notes model on Facebook, Instagram and Threads. Zuckerberg said in a video that Meta has "built a lot of complex systems to moderate content" in recent years. "But the problem with complex systems is they make mistakes. Even if they accidentally... Read more ›
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While there's plenty of automotive news to go around at CES 2025, far and away, the talk of the show is the Afeela 1. Again. For five years now, Sony has been showing off some variation on this same theme, first as the Vision-S in 2020, then the Vision-S 02, before adopting the unfortunate rebranding to Afeela in 2023, and this year finally to Afeela 1. Along the way, the... 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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On the same day NVIDIA briefly became the most valuable company in the world, CEO Jensen Huang took to the CES 2025 stage to announce the company's new, long-awaited Blackwell family of graphic cards. The first salvo of RTX 50 series GPU will arrive in January, with pricing starting at $549 for the RTX 5070 and topping out at an eye-watering $1,999 for the flagship RTX 5090. Developing... This article... 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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