Engadget Podcast: iPhone 16e review and Amazon's AI-powered Alexa+

The keyword for the iPhone 16e seems to be "compromise." In this episode, Devindra chats with Cherlynn about her iPhone 16e review and try to figure out who this phone is actually for. Also, [...]

Blizzard just made Overwatch’s best mode much worse

While I dabble in other Overwatch modes, I spend the vast majority of my time there in Mystery Heroes, a casual mode in which you load in as a random character and automatically switch to another one [...]

Engadget Podcast: We've survived two days of CES 2025

In this bonus episode, Cherlynn and Devindra discuss the latest innovations in robot vacuums, new AI PC hardware from AMD and Intel, and Dell's decision to nuke its PC brands in favor of Apple-es [...]

Marvel Snap users are getting a ‘welcome back’ rewards package to make up for the TikTok ban outage

Marvel Snap was one of the unexpected casualties of the TikTok shutdown that briefly went into effect last weekend, and as a way of making things right with users, its developers at Second Dinner are [...]

First Partner to the Stars: Muon Space Adopts Starlink Lasers for Millisecond Data Transfer

By integrating Starlink's mini laser technology, Muon Space will eliminate ground station bottlenecks to build a high-speed, real-time network in orbit. [...]

Large reasoning models almost certainly can think

Recently, there has been a lot of hullabaloo about the idea that large reasoning models (LRM) are unable to think. This is mostly due to a research article published by Apple, "The Illusion of Th [...]

Physicists Create a Thermometer for Measuring ‘Quantumness’

“Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives physicists a way to detect quantum entanglement without destroying it. [...]

'The evidence is starting to mount': physicists at the LHC have found a possible 'anomaly' that could unlock 'a new understanding of how the universe works' — and 'charming penguins' may hold the key to whether the Standard Model is out of date

Physicists observe a four-sigma anomaly in a rare decay process, hinting at possible new physics, while uncertainties still limit firm conclusions [...]

American AI startup Poolside launches free, high-performing open model Laguna XS.2 for local agentic coding

The AI race lately has felt a bit like a game of tennis: first, Anthropic releases a new, pricey state-of-the-art proprietary model for general users (Claude Opus 4.7), then, a week or so later, its r [...]