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CES (formerly the Consumer Electronics Show) is the biggest tech convention of the year. It helps set the stage for all the wonderful gadgets we're going to see over the next 12 months. However, among all the quadcopters, questionably benevolent robots and devices with fancy flexible screens, there's a lot of small things that go into making CES a one-of-a-kind event. To highlight some of the silly, stupid and occasionally wholesome things we encountered at the show this year, we humbly present the very uno
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We already knew that Marvel Rivals has proven incredibly popular since its launch last month - 10 million players joined online at launch - but now it's smashed another milestone, topping 600K concurrent players this weekend on Steam. Read more Read more ›
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Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan that Meta will eventually reach a point where all coding for its apps is done by AI. Read more ›
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Lords of the Fallen publisher CI Games confirmed it would not "embed social or political agendas" in its games due to the "high risk it can present". Read more Read more ›
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"We just faced this massive, massive institutional pressure to start censoring content on ideological grounds," Zuckerberg said. Read more ›
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After not coming to DIsney+ at all last year, most of Macross is making its way to a single streaming platform in the West. Read more ›
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So far Meta has only abandoned fact-checking in the US. If and when it expands, the move will be a major blow to the Latin American news ecosystem. Read more ›
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With a film and several game projects in the works, will the world let Horizon get as big as PlayStation wants? Read more ›
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In an interview with "Pod Save America," Newsom said Trump has been "pretty straightforward" about potentially denying federal aid to California. Read more ›
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Reddit user acquires an Intel Arc B570 GPU four days before its official release. Read more ›
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About 38,000 acres have burned so far, and at least 11 deaths have been reported, in what could be the most costly fire in California history. Read more ›
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The first season of Marvel Rivals may have started, but it's brought an end to mods that let players be third-party characters. Read more ›
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Yesterday's Marvel Rivals update has seemingly wiped the ability to use mods on PC. Read more Read more ›
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ComputerBase reports that the ryzen 7 9800X3D can now be purchased more readily overseas at a higher asking price. Read more ›
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Boring Company is constructing a planned 68-mile tunnel system beneath Las Vegas. Because it’s privately funded, it has not gone through the vetting typical of public transit systems. Read more ›
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The Great Salt Lake is rapidly losing water, and new research indicates agriculture is to blame. Read more ›
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Amazon is shutting down its Try Before You Buy Prime program at the end of January. The move, first reported by The Information, was announced with a notice at the top of the Prime Try Before You Buy page, which puts its last day in effect as January 31. The service has been available to members since 2018, when it was first launched as Prime Wardrobe. With it, you could... Read more ›
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WordPress co-creator (and Automattic CEO) Matt Mullenweg "has deactivated the accounts of several WordPress.org community members," reports TechCrunch, "some of whom have been spearheading a push to create a new fork of the open source WordPress project." Joost de Valk — creator of WordPress-focused SEO tool Yoast (and former marketing and communications' lead for the WordPress Foundation) — last month published his "vision for a new WordPress era," alluding to... Read more ›
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Shrek's cinematic return is still coming, but he'll have to wait for the Minions to get done taking over summer 2026. Read more ›
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U.S. Commerce Secretary confirms that TSMC's fab near Phoenix, Arizona, is already producing chips. 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 isn't stopping at moderation changes. According to both Axios and The New York Times, the company is also pulling the plug on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. That includes removing diversity hiring goals, eliminating the chief diversity officer position and no longer prioritizing minority-owned businesses as vendors, per The Times' reporting. When asked to comment on ending DEI initiatives, Meta confirmed the reporting was accurate. Internally, the company... 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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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... 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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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. The headset looks... 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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