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The Morning After: Everything Samsung announced this week (and future devices teased)
24 Jan

The Morning After: Everything Samsung announced this week (and future devices teased)

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Welcome to a new newsletter, with a bit of a new direction. While our mid-week edition tackles news specifics, this end-of-the-week missive combines the biggest news with more context, more things to read and watch, recommendations, easter eggs, inside baseball and stuff that interests our readers, alongside the breaking news, reviews and features you expect from Engadget.We’d love your feedback on what you’d like to see covered in these meatier editions — hit me up at tma(at)engadget.com.Luckily for me, we kick things off with Samsung’s big Unpacked event, launching three new phones and teasing two — yes, two! — more…
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The Morning After: TikTok lives to scroll another day (or 75)
21 Jan

The Morning After: TikTok lives to scroll another day (or 75)

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Almost immediately after taking office, President Donald Trump signed a swathe of executive orders — including a reprieve for TikTok in the US.With the executive order, Trump’s Justice Department will not enforce the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act for 75 days, extending the time the company has to reach a deal.TikTok (and other ByteDance apps) went offline late Saturday, but the TikTok outage only lasted a matter of hours. Trump affirmed there would be “no liability for any company that helped keep TikTok from going dark before my order.” Trump also proposed a joint venture that would…
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The Morning After: What to expect from Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event next week
15 Jan

The Morning After: What to expect from Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event next week

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Welcome back to the newsletter. We are changing things up, so expect to see at least two editions each week, with the occasional special edition. The newsletter will continue to live on Engadget.com too, but if you haven’t subscribed, you should do that.Next week, Samsung will reveal its next family of Galaxy phones. Not the foldables, no, but the traditional S series devices. Going on track record, we can expect to see three S25 devices: standard, Plus and Ultra.There’s unlikely to be a huge change to aesthetics, but we expect some subtle differences — rounded corners, flatter edges and (of…
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The Morning After: Introducing the best of CES 2025 winners
11 Jan

The Morning After: Introducing the best of CES 2025 winners

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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-in-show winner was an accessibility pick: the WeWalk Smart Cane 2. A high-tech version of the mobility…
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The Morning After: Finding fun and relaxation in the middle of CES 2025
09 Jan

The Morning After: Finding fun and relaxation in the middle of CES 2025

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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 , or maybe you’re getting a lovely facial treatment that combines cooling plates with , creating photos that will haunt you for the rest of your professional career? Or perhaps you’re fleeing the violence and… fungi of in an immersive experience. (Work hard, play harder.)Deputy Editor Cherlynn Low at CES. Oh wait, no. (Engadget)It’s not just upgraded laptops and TVs — even if have broken cover. And…
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The Morning After: Meta gives up on fact checking for Facebook and Instagram
08 Jan

The Morning After: Meta gives up on fact checking for Facebook and Instagram

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced yesterday that the company is swinging away from its efforts to corral its content. Meta is suspending its fact-checking program to move to an X-style Community Notes model on Facebook, Instagram and Threads. We go into detail on the changes Meta promised, but is the company attempting to court the new Trump presidency?Well, alongside donating to Donald Trump’s inauguration fund, replacing policy chief Nick Clegg with a former George W. Bush aide and even adding Trump’s buddy (and UFC CEO) Dana White to its board… yeah. Probably.Meta blocked Trump from using his accounts on its…
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The Morning After: FCC’s attempt to restore net neutrality didn’t work
03 Jan

The Morning After: FCC’s attempt to restore net neutrality didn’t work

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The Sixth Circuit US Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that the FCC does not have the "statutory authority" to implement net neutrality rules.Since the rules were established in 2015, the FCC argued that classifying ISPs as "telecommunication services" gives it broad authority to regulate them. The decision to redefine ISPs as "information services" during the first Trump Administration led to the repeal of net neutrality in 2017.The current FCC voted to restore net neutrality on April 25 last year. The difference between 2015 and now is the Supreme Court's recent, radical reinterpretation of an important legal doctrine. The Chevron doctrine…
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The Morning After: Tech’s biggest losers in 2024
02 Jan

The Morning After: Tech’s biggest losers in 2024

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Welcome to 2025. Wave farewell to yesteryear with the biggest losers in tech. Picking our favorite villains in 2024 was challenging when it simply wasn’t a great time for tech. With the depressing spiral that is social media, the will-they-or-won’t-they dance of banning TikTok in the US and the neverending edited and deepfaked content, it’s just so noisy. Is it the internet of slop? Is it exhaustion? Is it AIs talking to AIs about AIs? In between all that, there’s the obsolescence of connectors past, Intel’s major struggles to turn around its fortunes, and, ugh, those AI assistants. EngadgetAnd, because…
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The Morning After: A microwave with a 27-inch touchscreen
31 Dec

The Morning After: A microwave with a 27-inch touchscreen

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We’re wrapping up 2024, so why not do it with some frivolous CES announcements? Like this premium (it has to be premium!) microwave from LG, with a touchscreen bigger than your iPad. I’m not sure what you’ll watch in the three-and-a-half minutes it takes to heat that butter chicken curry, but you can do it in glorious full HD resolution. LGThe touchscreen integrates with LG’s ThinQ Smart Home Dashboard if you think it’s the right time to change channels on your TV or tinker with compatible Matter and Thread devices, like smart lights and er, and other things. It can…
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The Morning After: The 12 best gadgets we reviewed in 2024
30 Dec

The Morning After: The 12 best gadgets we reviewed in 2024

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As 2025 approaches, we’re reviewing all our… reviews. Yes, everything we poked, prodded, and critiqued this year. Alongside inevitable smartphone and laptop upgrades (it was a particularly strong year for Pixel phones, while Apple continues to offer a premium phone experience on its pro iPhones), it was also a year of impressive drones and cameras, keeping Steve Dent very busy.Unfortunately, we can’t test everything, so we try to balance devices from companies with a track record for making things folks buy and the weird, fascinating, doing-something-different products and services. We’ve included the best gaming laptop of 2024 and Apple’s continued…
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