The Oscars will exclusively air on YouTube starting in 2029

The entertainment industry’s most well-known awards show is heading to streaming. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has announced that the Academy Awards, popularly known as th [...]

Warner Bros. dominates Oscars with 11 wins ahead of its acquisition by Paramount

Ahead of its acquisition by Paramount Skydance, Warner Bros. dominated the 2026 Oscars with 11 wins primarily for Ryan Coogler's Sinners and Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another. [...]

The Morning After: Tech’s biggest losers of 2025

Honestly, compiling the biggest losers for Engadget is more fun than talking up the winners. While we reviewed nothing as atrocious as those ill-fated AI assistant gadgets from 2024, AI companies and [...]

Using generative AI will 'neither help nor harm the chances of achieving' Oscar nominations

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has decide that its official stance towards AI-use in films is to take no stance at all, according to a statement the organization shared outlining chan [...]

Elgato's Stream Deck breaks free from the company's hardware

The Elgato Stream Deck is expanding into a hardware-agnostic platform. On Monday, the company unveiled a software version of the programmable shortcut device. Also on tap are a module for integration [...]

Instagram will start handing out awards to select creators

Instagram is launching its own awards program, according to The Hollywood Reporter. This is sort of like the Oscars, but for short-form social media content. There isn't an awards ceremony, a com [...]

How to stream March Madness 2025: Watch the Final Four games on April 4 and 5

By now, your brackets were likely busted a long time ago. The 2025 NCAA Tournaments, affectionately known to many as March Madness, are coming to a close. Both the men's and women's Final Fo [...]

The Academy has not banned AI from the Oscars. It has defined what it means to be the author of a film.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced new eligibility rules on 2 May for the 99th Academy Awards, and the two that matter most are about seven words each. Acting nominations will b [...]

Elgato's Stream Deck + XL adds a touch strip and dials to an already massive array of buttons

Elgato's Stream Deck helped popularize using a macro pad among aspiring livestreamers and regular desk jockeys, so it's only natural for the brand to continue to expand on its lineup. After [...]