Amazon is shutting down its Try Before You Buy Prime program at the end of January. The move, first reported by The Information, was announced with a notice at the top of the Prime Try Before You Buy page, which puts its last day in effect as January 31. The service has been available to… Continue reading Amazon Prime will no longer let clothes shoppers ‘try before you buy’ after this month
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Our unofficial, silly and meaningless CES 2025 awards, just for fun
CES (formerly the Consumer Electronics Show) is the biggest tech convention of the year. It helps set the stage for all the wonderful gadgets we’re going to see over the next 12 months. However, among all the quadcopters, questionably benevolent robots and devices with fancy flexible screens, there’s a lot of small things that go… Continue reading Our unofficial, silly and meaningless CES 2025 awards, just for fun
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 sore ankles and fielding thousands… Continue reading CES 2025: The best tech and gadgets we saw in Las Vegas
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, apart from a few sure… Continue reading What to expect at Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Unpacked event
Chick-fil-A Using Advanced Squeezing Robots to Conduct Huge Lemon Party
Talk about advanced squeezing technique. Party On, Chicken Chick-fil-A has built an armada of robots to squeeze citrus for its delectable lemonade, turning the God-fearing fast food chain‘s lemonade plant into a veritable lemon party. As Bloomberg reports, the chicken chain’s Santa Clarita, California plant is home to driverless forklifts, gigantic mechanic lemon-grabbing arms, automated rollers,… Continue reading Chick-fil-A Using Advanced Squeezing Robots to Conduct Huge Lemon Party
Google’s AI Overview Believes Baby Elephants Can Sit in the Palm of a Human Hand
Are baby elephants, which weigh hundreds of pounds at birth, tiny enough to fit squarely within the bounds of a human palm? Common sense would say no — but Google’s AI Overview, or the AI-generated summary of web content that now often pops up at the top of Google results pages, seems to think the… Continue reading Google’s AI Overview Believes Baby Elephants Can Sit in the Palm of a Human Hand
Scientists Discover “Punk” and “Emo” Fossils
Feeling old yet? Fossil Out Boy Two “Punk” and “Emo” fossils — and we don’t mean elder members of the music circles that once enjoyed greater cultural cachet — are challenging scientists’ understanding of the evolution of mollusks. The scene, folks, is not dead. As detailed in a study published in the journal Nature, the… Continue reading Scientists Discover “Punk” and “Emo” Fossils
Humans Can Access Something Akin to “Bullet Time,” Scientist Says
Image by Warner Bros. While we’re not quite living in “The Matrix” — at least in a falsifiable sense — it seems that something comparable to the film’s legendary slowed-down “bullet time” sequence can, under the right circumstances, happen in real life. In an essay for The Conversation, psychology lecturer Steve Taylor of England’s Leeds Beckett University argues that… Continue reading Humans Can Access Something Akin to “Bullet Time,” Scientist Says
Latin American Fact-Checkers Brace for Meta’s Next Moves
This 180-degree change is a response to Donald Trump’s imminent second presidential term and to the methods of the competition, such as X’s Community Notes. Meta decided not to invest any more money in its program. Now, it hopes that Facebook and Instagram users themselves will be the ones to decide what content is disinformation… Continue reading Latin American Fact-Checkers Brace for Meta’s Next Moves
A Glowing Metal Ring Crashed to Earth. No One Knows Where It Came From
It has been more than a week since reports first emerged about a “glowing ring of metal” that fell from the sky and crashed near a remote village in Kenya. According to the Kenya Space Agency, the object weighed 1,100 pounds and had a diameter of more than 8 feet when measured after it landed… Continue reading A Glowing Metal Ring Crashed to Earth. No One Knows Where It Came From