Month: January 2025
CES 2025: The best tech and gadgets we saw in Las Vegas
CES 2025 has come to a close — Friday was the final day of the show — and team Engadget has departed Las Vegas. Our reporters and editors spent the week scouring endless carpeted convention halls of the CES show floor, braving lines of chain smokers, overcoming nasty colds and…
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MSI launches two Cubi NUC AI mini PCs but I am still waiting for one with a Thunderbolt 5 port
MSI is the latest vendor to jump on the AI PC bandwagon The Cubi NUC AI+ 2M is a mini PC with 11 ports and 1 card reader but no TB5 It comes with a dedicated Copilot button as well as a fingerprint reader MSI unveiled two new Cubi mini…
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What to expect at Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Unpacked event
Samsung’s big Galaxy S25 launch is right around the corner. The first Galaxy Unpacked event of 2025 is confirmed for January 22 at 1PM ET in San Jose, CA, where Samsung’s “Next Big Thing” (to borrow a 14-year-old marketing slogan) will be revealed. What exactly will be on tap? Well,…
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This modern cassette player with Bluetooth (and matching retro wireless headphones) might’ve been my favorite music experience at CES 2025
In an age where even casual music fans know how measly streaming services can be regarding artist pay, the return of physical media was perhaps inevitable. Just last year, vinyl record sales grew by 10.5% with 6.7 million discs sold thanks to artists including Taylor Swift and Fleetwood Mac. Though…
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Amazon Prime will shut down its clothing try-on program
Given the combination of Try Before You Buy only scaling to a limited number of items and customers increasingly using our new AI-powered features like virtual try-on, personalized size recommendations, review highlights, and improved size charts to make sure they find the right fit, we’re phasing out the Try Before You Buy…
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Anker’s display-equipped wall charger from CES is already on sale
The inventive gadgets and gizmos at CES can often define the year, but most everything that appears on the showroom floor isn’t going to be available until later in the year, if at all. Fortunately, that’s not the case with Anker’s 140W GaN charger, which is already available in black…
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