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Arc browser comes to the iPhone as a stripped-down, AI-powered search tool

maandag 29 januari 2024 inEngadget (Gadgets)

Arc, a browser initially built just for the Mac, has been expanding lately. The Browser Company announced a beta of its Windows version last month, and today they're bringing the Arc experience to the iPhone with Arc Search. As the name implies, the…

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Amazon abandons $1.4 billion iRobot acquisition after EU veto threat

maandag 29 januari 2024 inEngadget (Gadgets)

Amazon and iRobot, maker of the Roomba vacuum line, just announced that they would be dropping their proposed merger. The potential acquisition was announced back in August of 2022 and was immediately the target of antitrust watchdogs, particularly …

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Apple's 15-inch MacBook Air M2 falls back to a low of $999

maandag 29 januari 2024 inEngadget (Gadgets)

Apple's 15-inch MacBook Air M2 is already the company's most affordable laptop with this size screen. Now, you can grab the 256GB model at Amazon for just $999 (in Starlight), back down to the lowest price we've seen to date. And if you need more st…

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Japan's SLIM lunar probe returns to life more than a week after landing upside down

maandag 29 januari 2024 inEngadget (Gadgets)

Japan's lunar lander has regained power a full nine days after it landed on the moon's surface nearly upside down and was subsequently switched off, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) announced. A change in the sun's position allowed the sola…

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The Morning After: That AI-generated George Carlin comedy special was written by humans

maandag 29 januari 2024 inEngadget (Gadgets)

As generative AI (and access to AI tools) continues to grow, expect to see more things like the tumult over “George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead.” Released on (then pulled from) YouTube, it’s framed as an hour of new “material” by the comedian, who die…

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Sony's WH-1000XM5 ANC headphones fall back to $328

maandag 29 januari 2024 inEngadget (Gadgets)

Sony's WH-1000XM5 headphones are some of the most popular on the market, thanks to the improved sound quality, comfortable fit and highly effective active noise cancellation (ANC). If you've been looking at buying a pair, now is a good time to act. …

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The UwU Virtual Pet Buffer is a Tamagotchi in a guitar pedal

zondag 28 januari 2024 inEngadget (Gadgets)

I'm not gonna pretend I've figured you, the Engadget reader, out. Trying to predict what is gonna get your little nerd hearts all a flutter is kind of a crapshoot. But, I'm pretty confident that a Tamagotchi in a guitar pedal is right up your alley.…

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X plans to hire 100 content moderators to fill new Trust and Safety center in Austin

zondag 28 januari 2024 inEngadget (Gadgets)

X’s head of business operations Joe Benarroch said the company plans to open a new office in Austin, Texas for a team that will be dedicated to content moderation, Bloomberg reports. The “Trust and Safety center of excellence,” for which the company…

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X confirms it blocked Taylor Swift searches to ‘prioritize safety’

zondag 28 januari 2024 inEngadget (Gadgets)

X has confirmed it’s preventing users from searching Taylor Swift’s name after pornographic deepfakes of the artist began circulating on the platform this week. Visitors to the site started noticing on Saturday that some searches containing Swift’s …

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Narrative game Open Roads has been delayed by a month

zaterdag 27 januari 2024 inEngadget (Gadgets)

Annapurna is delaying the release of its upcoming narrative adventure game, Open Roads, by a few weeks so the team can do a little more refining. It’s now scheduled for release on March 28 instead of the originally planned date of February 22. The d…

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Embodme Erae II hands-on: A customizable MPE MIDI controller for your soft synths and analog gear

zaterdag 27 januari 2024 inEngadget (Gadgets)

The original Erae Touch was one of the more interesting MPE controllers to come out in the last few years. But it's been on the market for less than three years. So it was something of a surprise when Embodme showed up to NAMM 2024 with Erae II, the…

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Fan-made Bloodborne Kart catches heat from Sony, forcing developers to shift gears

zaterdag 27 januari 2024 inEngadget (Gadgets)

We were so close to finally drifting on the cobblestone streets of Yharnam, but it looks like we’ll have to wait a little longer for Bloodborne Kart. And, it’ll be called something else when it does arrive. Lilith Walther, the developer behind the p…

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Casio's Dimension Tripper lets you control your guitar pedals with your guitar strap

zaterdag 27 januari 2024 inEngadget (Gadgets)

NAMM is packed to the gills with synths, guitars, saxophones, et cetera. But, I promise you right now, the Dimension Tripper from Casio is the only wireless expression controller on the floor that you operate with your guitar strap.  The concept is …

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Fossil is done making smartwatches but will keep releasing updates for a few years

zaterdag 27 januari 2024 inEngadget (Gadgets)

Fossil is officially getting out of the smartwatch business. Following months of speculation about the future of its Wear OS smartwatch lineup, which hasn’t seen a new model since 2021’s Gen 6, the company confirmed to The Verge on Friday that it’s …

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Seeking Mavis Beacon is a wild Sundance doc about the search for a lost tech icon

zaterdag 27 januari 2024 inEngadget (Gadgets)

With a healthy dose of heart and whimsy, the Sundance documentary Seeking Mavis Beacon follows two young Black women who are devoted to finding the original model for Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. If you touched a computer during the '80s or '90s, th…

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Lawsuit says 23andMe hackers targeted users with Chinese and Ashkenazi Jewish heritage

zaterdag 27 januari 2024 inEngadget (Gadgets)

In October 2023, 23andMe admitted that it suffered a data breach that compromised its users' information. The company has been hit with several lawsuits since then, and according to The New York Times, one of them is accusing 23andMe of failing to n…

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ElevenLabs reportedly banned the account that deepfaked Biden's voice with its AI tools

zaterdag 27 januari 2024 inEngadget (Gadgets)

ElevenLabs, an AI startup that offers voice cloning services with its tools, has banned the user that created an audio deepfake of Joe Biden used in an attempt to disrupt the elections, according to Bloomberg. The audio impersonating the president w…

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What’s up with the 'toxicity' around Cities: Skylines II?

vrijdag 26 januari 2024 inEngadget (Gadgets)

Cities: Skylines II developer Colossal Order has a uniquely close relationship with its community. The original Cities: Skylines came out in 2015 and gobbled up the audience that was left behind by EA’s SimCity, which came out in 2013 and was a bust…

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The Final Fantasy 14 live-action TV show is dead

vrijdag 26 januari 2024 inEngadget (Gadgets)

A live-action TV series based on Final Fantasy 14 is no longer happening. The project is now dead, according to Dinesh Shamdasani, the co-founder of Hivemind, one of the production companies involved. "We took around a fantastic pilot script by Ben …

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Microsoft slashes 1,900 jobs across Xbox and Activision Blizzard

vrijdag 26 januari 2024 inEngadget (Gadgets)

We're not even one month into 2024 and it's already been another brutal year for workers in the video game industry. Microsoft is the latest company to announce a major round of layoffs in its gaming division as it's cutting around 1,900 workers fro…

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Samsung’s AI features on the Galaxy S24 in China reportedly ditch Google for Baidu

vrijdag 26 januari 2024 inEngadget (Gadgets)

The Samsung Galaxy S24 isn’t taking Google’s Gemini AI with it to China. CNBC reported Friday that the Chinese version of the flagship phone uses Baidu’s Ernie chatbot to power the phone’s AI-powered features. Ernie arrived last August after reporte…

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