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As we finish up our live coverage of all things CES, it’s time to pick the best in show. So many of the new things we saw this year had an AI component, with a noticeable uptick in AR glasses, hearing aid earbuds, solar-powered tech, emotional support robots and robot vacuums. (Why this year, robovacs?)
Our list of CES 2025 winners covers various categories, ranging from typical Engadgety things like PCs, home entertainment and gaming to themed winners in sustainability and accessibility.
In fact, our best-
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Fine-tuning large language models is a decisive step in adapting them for specific tasks. With the growing demand for tailored AI solutions, choosing the right model type has become more important. Open-source and proprietary models offer distinct options, each with its advantages and challenges. This article explores how these models differ and provides practical guidance... Read more » Read more ›
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You’ll only need to empty the Yeedi Cube’s base every once in a while. It handles the rest. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge The Yeedi Cube doesn’t have the modularity and extremities of some of the cool new robot vacuums we’ve seen at CES 2025, but the self-emptying, self-cleaning mopping robovac is also much more reasonably priced. It’s even cheaper today at Amazon, where you can... Read more ›
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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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The International Fact-Checking Network proposed crowdsourcing in conjunction with professionals, a "new model." Read more ›
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There's good news for those wanting to try The First Berserker: Khazan before they buy - a free demo is on the way. Read more Read more ›
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Square Enix has shared a new Group Customer Harassment Policy to protect its workers from toxic fan behaviour. Read more Read more ›
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You will very soon be able to register to take part in the network test for Elden Ring's upcoming co-op spin-off, Nightreign. Read more Read more ›
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The EV giant is banding together with major competitors including Ford, Stellantis, and Toyota to help them meet European emissions targets. Read more ›
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The developers at VideoLAN showcased an early demo of real-time AI-generated subtitles for VLC media player at CES 2025 Read more ›
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A Super Scooper drops ocean water on the Palisades fire. | Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images An aircraft helping to fight wildfires that are raging across Los Angeles was struck by a civilian drone on Thursday. The collision damaged the wing of the aircraft — a CL-415 “Super Scooper” capable of scooping up 1,600 gallons of ocean water to drop onto nearby blazes —... Read more ›
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The Sleeping Dogs film adaptation, set to star Star Wars actor Donnie Yen, has been canned. Read more Read more ›
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There has been a flurry of Switch 2-related news in recent days, but not from Nintendo itself. Now, the Mario maker has broken its silence on the week's reports. Read more Read more ›
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Washington and Tampa Bay face off in Florida, and you don't need cable to watch on NBC or stream on Peacock. Read more ›
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A techno-colonialist project sees Greenland as the perfect opportunity to trial its utopian ambitions. 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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Huge recent fundraising deals for Databricks, SpaceX and OpenAI further delay need for stock market debuts Read more ›
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Someone is impersonating CrowdStrike to deploy XMRig, a popular and dangerous cryptojacker. Read more ›
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Data WIRED collected during the 2024 Democratic National Convention strongly suggests the use of a cell-site simulator, a controversial spy device that intercepts sensitive data from every phone in its range. 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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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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The world’s biggest tech show is approaching its end, and it’s been hard. Mostly. But it’s not without its perks. Perhaps you got to sit in and experience the first CES press event inside the fully screened Sphere, or maybe you’re getting a lovely facial treatment that combines cooling plates with LED light therapy, creating photos that will haunt you for the rest of your professional career? Or perhaps you’re... 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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