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PlayStation’s 2025 Wrap-Up is here, so you can see how many hours you’ve sunk into Death Stranding 2

Sony’s 2025 PlayStation Wrap-Up is now available. The recap, which is similar to those from music streaming services, sums up gaming habits from throughout the year. It shows players how many hours they used their PS4 or PS5, what games they played the most, preferred genres, trophy counts and more. These digital cards are shareable […]

Skyrim arrives on the Switch 2

You can add the Switch 2 to the (long) list of platforms where you can play The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The bad news: It costs $60 to play the 2011 game optimized for Nintendo’s 2025 hardware. The good news: It costs less (or nothing) if you own one of the versions for the original […]

Meta is trying to make Facebook suck less by simplifying things a bit

Somewhere along its never-ending quest to increase engagement, Meta realized that giving Facebook users more of what they want would make it more likely that they’ll stick around. The company has announced a bunch of updates designed to help improve the feed and the broader Facebook experience by making it easier to find, create and […]

Google Pixel Watch 4 gets double pinch and wrist turn features

It has been two months since Google released the Pixel Watch 4 and now the company is introducing new updates to the wearable. In our review, Engadget managing editor Cherlynn Low was impressed enough with the watch to give it an 86, but called out the lack of gesture-based interactions. The new one-handed gesture features, […]

Study shows that Instacart was charging different amounts for the same items

A collaborative report from Consumer Reports, Groundwork Collaborative and More Perfect Union has uncovered pricing experiments within the Instacart app that yielded higher or lower prices for different users on the exact same items from the same store location. The organizations partnered to enroll 437 shoppers in an experiment across four cities, where each shopper […]

Pebble is making a weird little smart ring for recording thoughts

Pebble just announced the Index 01, a smart ring for recording thoughts. It’s a little ring with a built-in microphone and that’s about it. The Index 01 is almost anti-tech in its simplicity. There’s no needless AI component shoehorned in, aside from speech-to-text. It’s a ring with a microphone that you whisper ideas into and […]

Our favorite Anker MagSafe power bank is 34 percent off right now

Holiday travel is almost upon us and, while it likely won’t be something out of a Richard Curtis film, there are ways to make it easier. You can raid our list of best travel gifts for 2025 and pick up our favorite MagSafe power bank: Anker’s MagGo 10,000mAh Power Bank. Even better, the Anker MagGo […]

Spotify finally brings music videos to the US

Spotify is finally letting the United States join its music video party. Music Videos have started rolling out in beta today to Premium users across the US and Canada, offering not only official artist videos but also new formats like live performances and covers. Music Videos first arrived last year in 11 countries, but the […]

Amazon is rolling out new shopping features for Alexa+, because of course it is

Congrats to any budding Nostradamus out there who peered into the future to boldly predict that Amazon would bring more shopping features to Alexa+ sooner rather than later. A gold star for you. Yes, it hasn’t taken too long for Amazon to weave more features into the generative AI-powered version of Alexa that are designed […]

Texas authorities have made multiple arrests in an NVIDIA GPU smuggling operation

The Southern District of Texas announced the seizure of more than $50 million in NVIDIA GPUs bound for China in violation of US export laws. Authorities arrested two businessmen, one of them the owner of a Houston company, accused of smuggling the chips used to train and run AI models. “Operation Gatekeeper has exposed a […]