Video Games Weekly: It's weird that esports is segregated by gender

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday (Or, I dunno, Thursday), broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video ga [...]

A closer look at Google’s AI health coach and the redesigned Fitbit app

Alongside the Pixel Watch 4 (and family of Pixel 10 devices), Google also introduced a new “personal health coach” today at its Made By Google event. A preview of it will begin rolling out in Octo [...]

The IOC and Saudi Arabia call it quits on their Olympic esports partnership

The esports partnership between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Saudi Arabia is no more. On Thursday, the IOC said that it and the Saudi Olympic and Paralympic Committee (SOPC) have &quo [...]

Galaxy Watch 8 review: Samsung’s best smartwatch in years

I’m too tired to write this review. Last week, I penned a work-in-progress version because I hadn’t yet spent enough time to fully explore the new features Samsung packed into the Galaxy Watch 8. [...]

EAGLET boosts AI agent performance on longer-horizon tasks by generating custom plans

2025 was supposed to be the year of "AI agents," according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and other AI industry personnel. And it has been, in many ways, with numerous leading AI model provider [...]

GeoGuessr community maps go dark in protest of EWC ties to human rights abuses

A group of GeoGuessr map creators have pulled their contributions from the game to protest its participation in the Esports World Cup 2025, calling the tournament "a sportswashing tool used by th [...]

LoL esports team suspends player for saying women can't compete while menstruating

A popular League of Legends esports player, Bwipo, has been suspended by his organization after he said on a Twitch stream that women shouldn't be playing competitively while menstruating. Bwipo [...]

Galaxy Watch 8: My first days with Samsung's smartwatch have been promising

Samsung announced its newest devices during its Galaxy Unpacked event on July 9. That happened to fall on the second day of Amazon’s Prime Day event. Do big tech companies not know what the others a [...]

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, [...]