United Airlines has announced plans to start testing Starlink on flights in February, and eventually add SpaceX’s satellite internet service to its entire fleet. The company first announced a partnership with SpaceX to “set a new standard of inflight connectivity” in September 2024. After testing, United expects the first commercial flight with Starlink to be… Continue reading United will start testing Starlink on flights in February
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Samsung CES 2025 press conference: Watch it here Monday at 5PM ET
Samsung’s CES 2025 theme is “AI for all.” (Samsung) Samsung is the 800-pound gorilla of CES, a global electronics giant that produces mobile devices, TVs and home theater products and kitchen appliances — just to name a few. It’s traditionally used CES to remind the world that it’s a major competitor in all those arenas,… Continue reading Samsung CES 2025 press conference: Watch it here Monday at 5PM ET
What to read this weekend: The friends you make in the apocalypse
I’ve always imagined that, if I were to end up a lone human alive in some post-apocalyptic wasteland, I’d eventually befriend other solitary animals of different species and we’d have each others’ backs in the daily fight for survival. Everybody thinks about these things… right? In any case, that’s kind of the situation Will Collins,… Continue reading What to read this weekend: The friends you make in the apocalypse
Microsoft is spending $80 billion on data centers this year
Microsoft has published a lengthy piece talking about its vision for artificial intelligence development over the next four years, under the incoming Trump administration. In the piece, the company has revealed that it’s spending a total of $80 billion on AI-enabled data centers in 2025. Microsoft said it’s building out the data centers to be… Continue reading Microsoft is spending $80 billion on data centers this year
Utah lawsuit alleges TikTok knew minors were being exploited on livestreams
Streams on TikTok Live were used to exploit children, according to a newly unredacted lawsuit filed by Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes. The lawsuit says that TikTok was not only aware that TikTok Lives were exposing minors to concerning messages from adults, but the company also directly profited off of some of the exchanges through… Continue reading Utah lawsuit alleges TikTok knew minors were being exploited on livestreams
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 to focus on a different… Continue reading Sony CES 2025 press conference: Watch it here Monday at 8pm ET
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 celebrity-branded AI chatbots (also discontinued).… Continue reading Meta sends its AI-generated profiles to hell where they belong
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 conference. We’ve scoured our bursting… Continue reading CES 2025: The new tech we’re expecting to see from Samsung, NVIDIA, LG and more in Las Vegas
8Bitdo’s wired XBox controller is just $30, plus the rest of this week’s best tech deals
The first few days of the year are typically sleepy for deals — and 2025 is proving no different. Since most Black Friday sale prices have expired, big ticket items are back to full price, but we found a few new discounts on smaller tech and accessories from brands we recommend, like Anker, Sony, Amazon… Continue reading 8Bitdo’s wired XBox controller is just $30, plus the rest of this week’s best tech deals
Watch the NVIDIA CES 2025 press conference live: Monday, 9:30PM ET
SAM YEH via Getty Images It’s hard to find a company that had a better 2024 than NVIDIA. Even after some choppiness in recent weeks, the chip giant’s stock price finished last year up 178 percent, and its market cap of more than $3.3 trillion dollars — with a T — is currently second only… Continue reading Watch the NVIDIA CES 2025 press conference live: Monday, 9:30PM ET