Month: January 2025
Sony CES 2025 press conference: Watch it here Monday at 8pm ET
Sony Be it for the Walkman portables and Trinitron TVs of old or the PlayStation consoles, Alpha cameras and superlative headphones of the twenty-first century, Sony has long been a mainstay at CES. But for the past couple of years at the world's biggest electronics trade show, Sony has opted…
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Meta sends its AI-generated profiles to hell where they belong
Meta has nuked a bunch of its AI-generated profiles from Facebook Instagram, the company confirmed, after the AI characters prompted widespread outrage and ridicule from users on social media. The AI-generated profiles, which were labeled as “AI managed by Meta,” launched in September of 2023, rolling out alongside the company’s…
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Samsung and Google’s new spatial audio format will take on Dolby Atmos this year
Samsung and Google are ready to push a new standard, Eclipsa Audio. This format will enable 3D audio experiences on certain YouTube videos later this year, with support available across Samsung’s 2025 lineup of TVs and soundbars. Over the years, Samsung notably hasn’t supported Dolby Vision HDR for dynamic HDR…
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I was wrong about Net Neutrality (RIP) and that’s probably good news
Eight years ago, I predicted the worst. Net Neutrality, which had only become a thing a few short years before, was struck down by the original Trump Administration in 2017. At the time, I pronounced it dead and laid out all the bad things that would happen as a result.…
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CES 2025: The new tech we’re expecting to see from Samsung, NVIDIA, LG and more in Las Vegas
Time to get into the habit of writing “2025” instead of 2024, and the year may have just begun, but the Engadget team is already working hard for CES 2025. This weekend, many from the Engadget team will be flying to Las Vegas, where we’ll be covering tech’s biggest annual…
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USB-C Is Now the Law of the Land in Europe
Apple has already pulled devices to comply with the European Commission’s new Common Charger Directive. Source
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