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Engadget Podcast: Gearing up for the AI and GPUs at CES 2025
04 Jan

Engadget Podcast: Gearing up for the AI and GPUs at CES 2025

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We're ringing in 2025 with everything we're expecting to see at CES! That includes new video cards from AMD and NVIDIA, a holographic windshield from Hyundai and potentially more satellite enabled phones. AI will still be a major topic — like the next generation of AI PCs — but it also seems like we'll be hearing a lot more about classic CES stories. In addition, we explore why Meta wants to start adding AI users to Facebook and Instagram.Listen below or subscribe on your podcast app of choice. If you've got suggestions or topics you'd like covered on the show,…
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Hisense’s new ‘laser TV’ projector boosts the brightness and contrast
04 Jan

Hisense’s new ‘laser TV’ projector boosts the brightness and contrast

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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 100 to 150 inches. The L9Q is the first in the series with auto screen alignment to ease the transition when you project it onto a different-sized screen.The L9Q uses a proprietary Hisense triple-laser light engine, which helps the TV reach 110 percent of the BT.2020 (aka Rec. 2020) color space — a good omen for lifelike colors that pop. This model also boosts the brightness…
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CES 2025: The new tech we’re expecting to see from Samsung, NVIDIA, LG and more in Las Vegas
03 Jan

CES 2025: The new tech we’re expecting to see from Samsung, NVIDIA, LG and more in Las Vegas

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Time to get into the habit of writing "2025" instead of 2024, and the year may have just begun, but the Engadget team is already working hard for CES 2025. This weekend, many from the Engadget team will be flying to Las Vegas, where we’ll be covering tech’s biggest annual conference. We've scoured our bursting inboxes, full of pitches from companies that are planning to be there, and meticulously filled out copious spreadsheets with upcoming launches and appointments for briefings and demos.Based on our experience, as well as observation of recent industry trends, it’s fairly easy to make educated predictions…
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Utah lawsuit alleges TikTok knew minors were being exploited on livestreams
03 Jan

Utah lawsuit alleges TikTok knew minors were being exploited on livestreams

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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 Lives were exposing minors to concerning messages from adults, but the company also directly profited off of some of the exchanges through TikTok Live's virtual gifting system.Following an investigation by Forbes into TikTok Live, TikTok conducted its own review called "Project Meramec," according to the suit. The company found that "hundreds of thousands of children" were getting around TikTok's age restrictions, hosting livestreams and interacting with adults.Because TikTok…
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Sony CES 2025 press conference: Watch it here Monday at 8pm ET
03 Jan

Sony CES 2025 press conference: Watch it here Monday at 8pm ET

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SonyBe 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. But for the past couple of years at the world's biggest electronics trade show, Sony has opted to focus on a different field: Automotive. The Afeela electric vehicle dominated Sony's 2023 and 2024 CES press conferences, and we know that trend will continue for 2025, with an appearance at the Sony event (and a followup press conference) already confirmed.What to expect at Sony's CES 2025 press conferenceThe Afeela…
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Meta sends its AI-generated profiles to hell where they belong
03 Jan

Meta sends its AI-generated profiles to hell where they belong

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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 , rolling out alongside the company’s celebrity-branded AI chatbots (). Meta doesn’t seem to have updated any of these profiles for several months, and the pages seem to have been largely unnoticed until this week, following an interview published by the Financial Times with Meta’s VP of Generative AI, Connor Hayes.In the interview, Hayes spoke about the company’s goal…
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Watch the NVIDIA CES 2025 press conference live: Monday, 9:30PM ET
03 Jan

Watch the NVIDIA CES 2025 press conference live: Monday, 9:30PM ET

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SAM YEH via Getty ImagesIt'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 its market cap of more than $3.3 trillion dollars — with a T — is currently second only to Apple. That's thanks to the fact that the ongoing AI revolution is powered largely by NVIDIA processors, which is raking in billions on its hardware even as its customers stay firmly in the red.So what does founder and CEO Jensen Huang do for an encore?…
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8Bitdo’s wired XBox controller is just $30, plus the rest of this week’s best tech deals
03 Jan

8Bitdo’s wired XBox controller is just $30, plus the rest of this week’s best tech deals

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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 a few new discounts on smaller tech and accessories from brands we recommend, like Anker, Sony, Amazon Echo and JBL. You can get an Anker charging station for 40 percent off and pick up the Apple Watch Series 10 for $329, a return to its all-time low. An Amazon Echo display is also selling for close to a record low. Here are…
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Anthropic agrees to work with music publishers to prevent copyright infringement
03 Jan

Anthropic agrees to work with music publishers to prevent copyright infringement

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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 copyright infringement complaint against Anthropic. The group alleged that the company had trained its Claude AI model on at least 500 songs to which they held rights and that, when promoted, Claude could reproduce the lyrics of those tracks either partially or in full. Among the song lyrics the publishers said Anthropic had infringed on included Beyoncé’s “Halo” and “Moves Like Jagger” by Maroon 5.In a…
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The best winter tech for 2025 to get you through the coldest months
03 Jan

The best winter tech for 2025 to get you through the coldest months

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My alarm is set for 6AM three days a week in the ambitious hope that I’ll make it to a 6:30AM yoga class. In the winter, it is midnight-dark at that hour and the only reason I occasionally find myself doing an early morning vinyasa is the sunrise alarm clock feature in the Hatch Restore 2. I schedule mine to start filling the room with a gradually brightening glow about 20 minutes before the sounds of singing bowls start playing. The light helps my brain wake up before I do and the subtle bongs of the bowl sort of seep…
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