Mat Smith

Welcome back to the newsletter. We are changing things up, so expect to see at least two editions each week, with the oc...

As we finish up our live coverage of all things CES, it’s time to pick the best in show. So many of the new things we sa...

The world’s biggest tech show is approaching its end, and it’s been hard. Mostly. But it’s not without its perks. Perhap...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced yesterday that the company is swinging away from its efforts to corral its content. M...

Handheld gaming PCs are here to stay, and as the entire category grows and matures, things are getting bigger. Even bigg...

At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, which kicks off this week, Roborock, a Chinese manufacturer of robot vacuums and other househo...

The Sixth Circuit US Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that the FCC does not have the "statutory authority" to ...

Welcome to 2025. Wave farewell to yesteryear with the biggest losers in tech. Picking our favorite villains in 2024 was ...

We’re wrapping up 2024, so why not do it with some frivolous CES announcements? Like this premium (it has to be premium!...

As 2025 approaches, we’re reviewing all our… reviews. Yes, everything we poked, prodded, and critiqued this year. Alongs...

It’s that quiet, end-of-December period for tech news. Still, alongside our usual retrospectives on tech in 2024, the Ru...

Honda and Nissan have officially confirmed the rumors that they're pursuing a merger. Both would still operate unde...

Apple is working on the next generation of AirPods Pro, and they may have some new health features, according to Bloombe...

Last week, Google allegedly instructed contract workers evaluating Gemini not to skip any prompts, regardless of their e...

The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear TikTok owner ByteDance’s appeal of a law that could ban the app. The Protecting ...

OnePlus will launch its new flagship series, the OnePlus 13, on January 7, 2025. It’s getting increasingly difficult for...

The holidays haven’t even kicked off, but we’re already looking to next year when, almost immediately, some of the Engad...

The current generation of consoles landed in roughly the same week in November 2020. At launch, the PS5 had seven new ex...

With over 60 million PS5s sold, Sony is so far dominating this generation of game consoles. Four years since the PlaySta...

The Game Awards delivered. While the games I thought deserved to win did so (Astro Bot! Balatro! Metaphor!), we got some...

After a particularly lean week for tech news, yesterday exploded. We’ve got Google’s next-generation AI model, Gemini 2....

Users in 48 US cities can now buy a new Hyundai car from a local dealership through Amazon. Just like buying a car from ...

In its own heady blog post, Google debuted Willow, its latest quantum chip. It was flanked by hyped headlines that sugge...

A new image generator called Aurora briefly opened for testing for some Grok users, and the tool’s results shared on X a...

Google DeepMind has just revealed Genie 2, a world-modelling AI capable of creating 3D worlds and sustaining those envir...

A $16 deck of cards based on the Balatro design is up for pre-order on Fangamer, and it’s expected to ship in March. The...

Apple has wrapped up all your listening stats in a bow with its annual recap of your entire year in music streaming. Thi...

It’s been a quiet few news days as everyone seemingly parses deals from Black Friday through to Cyber Monday. But there’...

Let’s cut to the chase. The chaos of Black Friday sales is here, and for the last week, we’ve been detangling the best d...

CRKD’s Nitro Deck turned my OLED Switch into an OLED Switch Lite, in a way. The Nitro Deck’s lightweight frame added chu...