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 [...]

Trump administration adds note rejecting 'gender ideology' to government websites

Newly restored pages on the websites of government agencies like the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) now include a disclaimer [...]

NYU’s new AI architecture makes high-quality image generation faster and cheaper

Researchers at New York University have developed a new architecture for diffusion models that improves the semantic representation of the images they generate. “Diffusion Transformer with Represent [...]

Video Games Weekly: Grand Theft Auto is no friend to the queer community

Welcome to the initial installment of Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday (yes, we realize today is Tuesday), broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays, [...]

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, [...]

How I Get Free Traffic from ChatGPT in 2025 (AIO vs SEO)

Three weeks ago, I tested something that completely changed how I think about organic traffic. I opened ChatGPT and asked a simple question: "What's the best course on building SaaS with Wor [...]

The Control Gap: Enterprise AI organizations have an ownership problem, not a technology problem — and most are governing it by hand

AI portfolios are expanding far faster than the ability to govern them across enterprises. Most organizations run a contested field of platforms, each claiming to be the “primary” AI layer; few co [...]

All the tech and gadgets announced at CES 2026

It's the first week of a new year and there's no time for the tech world to slowly ease back into things following the holidays. That's because CES 2026 is in full swing, with all manne [...]

Nintendo Miis are post-gender on Switch 2

We are on the eve of the Nintendo Switch 2 launch, and a few last-minute details are still trickling in. Like many other Nintendo consoles, you'll create a Mii to represent you during setup. With [...]