CES 2025 was more shoppable than conceptual

CES 2025 was a fantastic show for companies making good on the promises of years past. At these events, we’re used to seeing booth after booth of gadgets in concept and prototype phases, with vague details about final designs and release windows of “ev…

An Apple AirTags four-pack is down to $70, plus the rest of the week’s best tech deals

It’s CES week at Engadget, and our team has been on the ground in Las Vegas checking out tons of new devices, from the good to the weird to the ones that make you look like a sleep paralysis demon. Only a few gadgets from the show are actually availabl…

CES’s Pebble Flow EV trailer gets some tweaks ahead of its spring shipping date

It’s always gratifying when something promised at CES actually comes to market. That’s the case with the Pebble Flow electric trailer that my colleague Sam Rutherford checked out last year’s CES. I was able to see the final draft on the show floor this…

NVIDIA, AMD and Intel aimed for maximum power at CES 2025

There was no question that NVIDIA's RTX 5000 GPUs would be one of the biggest stories at CES 2025, and I figured Intel and AMD to arrive with some new hardware of their own. But I didn't expect that each of these companies would, in their own w…

A new initiative will fund and support open-source Chromium projects

Google has teamed up with the Linux Foundation to establish a new initiative called the "Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers." At the moment, most of the money that keeps Chromium, the open-source web browser project that produced the codeb…

Lawsuit says Mark Zuckerberg approved Meta’s use of pirated materials to train Llama AI

Meta knowingly used pirated materials to train its Llama AI models — with the blessing of company chief Mark Zuckerberg — according to an ongoing copyright lawsuit against the company. As TechCrunch reports, the plaintiffs of the Kadrey v. Meta case su…

The sustainable tiny home trend at CES 2025 revived my dream of building a compound

Small-scale, hyper-efficient living has always appealed to me, so I was overjoyed to step into numerous examples of sustainable tiny homes this week at CES 2025. There were EV RVs, trailers geared for camping and deliverable, turn-key, self-sustaining …

X’s new parody labels won’t fix its impersonation problem

X is further aiming to clamp down on impersonation by rolling out a label for parody accounts to help make them distinct from the real deal. Users will now start seeing the label on posts as well as profile pages.
The company says that the goal of the …

Tesla finally launches the refreshed 2025 Model Y in the Asia-Pacific region

Tesla has quietly unveiled its facelifted Model Y with new styling that will help it keep up with rivals like Kia and Volvo. Though currently only available in the Asia Pacific region, the refreshed "Juniper" model is likely to appear statesi…

Samsung isn’t talking about Eclipsa Audio at CES 2025

Before CES 2025 kicked off in Las Vegas, Samsung announced that its spatial audio collaboration with Google would be available on its 2025 TVs and soundbars. Finer details on the platform were noticeably absent from that announcement, with the company …