Alarmo is the quintessential Nintendo product: It’s a fun and quirky spin on a bedside alarm clock (with a motion sensor!) that mines your love for everything Nintendo. It’s a $100 device entirely meant to surprise and delight you. But there are also u…
Continue reading "Nintendo Alarmo review: Charming, yet frustrating"Another year, another flagship Qualcomm mobile chip. But things are reportedly a bit different with the Snapdragon 8 Elite, the company's newest offering headed to premium smartphones. For one, it's using the Oryon CPU that debuted in X Elite c…
Continue reading "Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite is reportedly its next premium mobile chip"Amazon finally did it: This week the company announced the Kindle Colorsoft, its first color E Ink e-reader. In this episode, Devindra and Cherlynn discuss where this device sits in a world of cheap tablets, and they dive into the updated Kindle Paperw…
Continue reading "Engadget Podcast: Why we’re intrigued by the Kindle Colorsoft"You can think of the $300 Meta Quest 3S as a basic Honda Accord of VR headsets. It doesn’t have the same high-quality optics as the $500 Quest 3, which is more like a Touring-grade Honda for enthusiasts, but they both get you to the same place: Truly i…
Continue reading "Meta Quest 3S review: Impressive VR for $300"This week, we’re joined by tech critic Paris Marx to discuss Data Vampires, his latest Tech Won’t Save us podcast series. We chat about how data centers suck up vast amounts of power, water and other resources, and why the AI boom is exacerbating thos…
Continue reading "Engadget Podcast: Hunting data center vampires with Paris Marx"Alongside its new family of Arrow Lake desktop hardware, Intel today also gave us a few tidbits around its upcoming Arrow Lake H mobile chips for high performance laptops. First off, they're not expected to arrive until the first quarter of 2025 — …
Continue reading "Intel’s upcoming Arrow Lake H laptop chips will offer beefier GPUs for AI workloads"Instead of cramming more technology into its Quest VR headsets, which would inevitably escalate their price, Meta has taken the opposite approach with the Quest 3S. It’s a slightly bulkier, slightly less sharp version of the Quest 3 starting at $300, a…
Continue reading "Meta Quest 3S hands-on: A $300 VR headset without major compromises"At this point, you probably either love the idea of making realistic videos with generative AI, or you think it's a morally bankrupt endeavor that devalues artists and will usher in a disastrous era of deepfakes we'll never escape from. It'…
Continue reading "Meta’s Movie Gen looks like a huge leap forward for AI video (but you can’t use it yet)"This week, Microsoft started rolling out the Windows 11 2024 update, but it quickly became clear that the company was far more eager to unveil new features for its Copilot AI and Copilot+ AI PCs. In this episode, Devindra and Cherlynn chat about Micros…
Continue reading "Engadget Podcast: Why the Windows 11 2024 update is all about Copilot AI"Now that we’re a few years into Microsoft’s obsession with AI and its Copilot assistant, it’s clearer than ever that Windows 11’s role is to show off the company’s artificial intelligence prowess. At least, that’s the message I took away from today’s a…
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