2025-01-08

AI Social Media Users Are Not Always a Totally Dumb Idea

Meta’s AI characters users might seem useless, but fake social media users can sometimes offer valuable insights into real human behavior. [...]

2025-01-08

The latest Freewrite device is a fancy mechanical keyboard built with writers in mind

The Detroit-based company Astrohaus has been making its “distraction-free writing tools” under the Freewrite name for about a decade. So far, those have all been standalone, single-purpose devices [...]

2025-01-08

Venezuela restricts TikTok – leaving citizens turning to VPNs

Restrictions come as TikTok failed to meet authorities' request to appoint a local representative. It isn't the first time, however, that Venezuela blocked a social media app. [...]

2025-01-08

Instagram's Filter Glitch Impacts LGBTQ+ Hashtags and Search Content

Meta says it has fixed the error that resulted in restricting LGBTQ+ content in teens' search and explore pages, but it's unclear how long the bug was active. [...]

2025-01-08

Shark joins the high-tech skincare mask war with an impressive CES 2025 opening shot

I have to admit — I used to be very skeptical of LED devices that purport to be good for your skin. When they first started being sold for home use, I felt like they were mostly expensive, ineffecti [...]

2025-01-08

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang welcomes the rise of superintelligent AI at CES 2025

Surprising no one, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang isn't too worried about a future filled with robots and superintelligent AI. In fact, he welcomes it. During a CES Q&A session with media and analys [...]

2025-01-08

Sony's immersive The Last of Us experience at CES 2025 dropped me into a subway filled with zombies

As Engadget's chief The Last of Us correspondent, I was pretty pumped to find out during Sony's CES 2025 press conference that season two of the HBO show would come out in April. But Naughty [...]

2025-01-08

Sony's Afeela 1 feels like a PlayStation 4 in the PS5 era

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 s [...]

2025-01-08

T-Mobile is under fire again over its 2021 data breach

T-Mobile is once again being sued by Washington state over the 2021 data breach which exposed sensitive information for over 79 million people, The Verge reports. The lawsuit filed on Monday alleges t [...]