Month: August 2025
YouTube admits it’s been enhancing videos behind the scenes with machine learning
YouTube has admitted to digitally polishing creators’ Shorts without their knowledge, following a growing wave of creator confusion that led to accusations of AI interference ruining videos. The company claimed to have been “experimenting” with subtle machine learning enhancements on select Shorts videos. The tweaks are supposed to improve the…
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Sharp’s Poketomo targets millennial loneliness with a glowing meerkat robot AI
Sharp’s upcoming AI companion Poketomo is a palm-sized, meerkat-shaped robot with a glowing belly Poketomo is designed to provide emotional support, especially for women in their 20s and 30s It combines cute design with conversational AI and syncs with a smartphone app to maintain a continuous relationship Japanese consumer tech…
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Video Games Weekly: Climbing games are so hot right now
Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a reporter who's covered the industry for more than 13…
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Scientists find a way to potentially reach terabit speeds wirelessly around obstacles using machine learning, AI – and yes, metasurfaces
High-frequency signals collapse when walls or people block their path Neural networks learned beam bending by simulating countless basketball practice shots Metasurfaces integrated into transmitters shaped signals with extreme precision For years, researchers have struggled with some vulnerabilities in ultrahigh-frequency communications. Ultrahigh frequencies are so fragile that signals that promise…
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Microsoft hosts emergency press conference after protesters ‘storm a building’
Microsoft president Brad Smith hosted an impromptu press conference on Tuesday afternoon, just hours after protesters gained access to a building at the company’s headquarters and held a sit-in demonstration inside his office. Seated on the edge of his desk, in the office that had been occupied by protesters earlier…
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This impossibly cool turntable uses a removable disc instead of any visible controls – it’s a weird minimalist dream
The Luphonic H2 has no buttons or switches: controlled with a puck Three-layer chassis to eliminate vibration Unusual shape and even more unusual materials Many turntables claim to have minimalist design, but how minimalist are they really if they have buttons and even switches? Luphonic’s H2 turntable has no need…
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