LG’s new projector looks like a stand fan
LG has announced two new projectors for CES 2025, which it calls successors to last year's CineBeam Q. The PF600U may look like a stand fan, but it's actually a projector that's also a Bluetooth...
View ArticleAnthropic agrees to work with music publishers to prevent copyright infringement
Anthropic has partly resolved a legal disagreement that saw the AI startup draw the ire of the music industry. In October 2023, a group of music publishers, including Universal Music and ABKCO, filed a...
View ArticleHisense’s new ‘laser TV’ projector boosts the brightness and contrast
Hisense unveiled its latest L9 series laser TV — the L9Q — at CES 2025. The “television” (an ultra-short-throw laser projector paired with a screen) comes with one of five screen sizes, ranging from...
View ArticleWatch the NVIDIA CES 2025 press conference live: Monday, 9:30PM ET
SAM YEH via Getty Images It's hard to find a company that had a better 2024 than NVIDIA. Even after some choppiness in recent weeks, the chip giant's stock price finished last year up 178 percent, and...
View Article8Bitdo's wired Xbox controller is just $30, plus the rest of this week's best...
The first few days of the year are typically sleepy for deals — and 2025 is proving no different. Since most Black Friday sale prices have expired, big ticket items are back to full price, but we found...
View ArticleMeta sends its AI-generated profiles to hell where they belong
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...
View ArticleSony CES 2025 press conference: Watch it here Monday at 8pm ET
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....
View ArticleUtah lawsuit alleges TikTok knew minors were being exploited on livestreams
Streams on TikTok Live were used to exploit children, according to a newly unredacted lawsuit filed by Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes. The lawsuit says that TikTok was not only aware that TikTok...
View ArticleMicrosoft is spending $80 billion on data centers this year
Microsoft has published a lengthy piece talking about its vision for artificial intelligence development over the next four years, under the incoming Trump administration. In the piece, the company has...
View ArticleWhat to read this weekend: The friends you make in the apocalypse
These are the new releases that caught our attention this week: a (surprisingly refreshing) post-apocalyptic tale, and an exorcism thriller. This article originally appeared on Engadget at...
View ArticleSamsung CES 2025 press conference: Watch it here Monday at 5PM ET
Samsung's CES 2025 theme is "AI for all."Samsung Samsung is the 800-pound gorilla of CES, a global electronics giant that produces mobile devices, TVs and home theater products and kitchen appliances —...
View ArticleUnited will start testing Starlink on flights in February
United Airlines has announced plans to start testing Starlink on flights in February, and eventually add SpaceX's satellite internet service to its entire fleet. The company first announced a...
View ArticleRoborock's new flagship robot vacuum has an arm that can grab small objects
Robot vacuums can remove the dust and dirt on your floor, but you still have to pick up stray socks and and any item strewn about your home. Now Roborock, a Chinese company that manufactures robot...
View ArticleBelkin’s new accessory is a magnetic power bank and camera grip rolled into one
Belkin has a new phone accessory at CES 2025 that somehow brings something fresh to the crowded field of magnetic charging accessories (in other words, MagSafe and non-Apple-certified alternatives)....
View ArticleThe second-gen Kindle Scribe is on sale for the first time
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...
View ArticleLG previews the compact S20A soundbar at CES 2025
LG is carrying over much of its 2024 soundbar lineup to 2025, but the company has one all-new model that it plans to debut this year. At CES, I got a preview of the compact speaker, the S20A, that will...
View ArticleLG's OLED evo TVs for 2025 come with AI and a 165Hz refresh rate
LG has unveiled its OLED evo TV lineup for 2025 and is showing them off at CES this year, along with its other home entertainment products. The new models are powered by the company's latest α (Alpha)...
View ArticleBelkin's new Creator Bundle at CES 2025 is a DIY kit for fledgling TikTokers
Belkin just unveiled a unique bundle at CES 2025 that’s being described as a “comprehensive toolset designed to meet the needs of budding creators.” The appropriately-named Creator Bundle comes with a...
View ArticleThis saliva-testing wand knows how stressed you are
It’s not as if any period in human history was particularly gentle, but we do seem to live in very stressful times. Maybe it’s not the stress that’s changed, but that we’re more able than ever to...
View ArticleHalliday promises its smart wayfarers have a ‘proactive’ AI assistant inside
Smart glasses are traditionally long on promise, short on delivery, especially at these sorts of consumer electronics shindigs. There’s always a steady stream of companies promising we’re on the cusp...
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