I don’t know what to think about Elon Musk anymore. I mean the SpaceX stuff is awesome, and the Tesla car has been pretty cool. But now we have the Tesla pickup truck, unveiled on Thursday. (Simone Giertz did it first!) The Tesla Cybertruck looks odd—one person likened it to a futuristic doorstop—but that’s fine…
DetailsThe protesters who gathered outside Google’s San Francisco office on Friday had a single, simple demand: give two employees their jobs back, immediately. But the group of 200 Googlers made clear more was at stake. It was, as one software engineer put it, “a struggle for the future of tech.”The two employees at the center…
DetailsThis story is part of Holiday Gift Guide 2019, your source for the season’s best gifts and deals, hand-picked by the experts at CNET. While Black Friday is traditionally the best time to get great deals on video games, you don’t have to wait a week to cash in one the goodness. Some of the best…
DetailsJust in time for Black Friday.Check out Engadget’s new deals hub!This week — nay, month — has already gotten a little intense in the lead-up to Black Friday, with some brands and retailers having launched “preview” sales the first week of November. Sheesh. Anyhow, you’re going to be seeing us pay more attention to price…
DetailsIf you’re in the market for a smart speaker, we’ve got you covered with a roundup of the best Black Friday deals on Amazon Echo and Google Home speakers. But smart displays might be a better choice if you want a device that you can use to play music and also showcase your photos and…
DetailsDevin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said Thursday that the impeachment inquiry had “poisoned the minds of fanatics,” and he was absolutely right—but not quite in the way that he meant. His comments, aimed at Democrats, instead came across in the hearing as projection, a sad summation of the intellectual rot…
DetailsThat sounds familiar.It’s the first thought that crossed both Dan and Ben Volach’s minds after Apple announced Sign in with Apple at its annual developer conference this past June. Specifically, the part of the new feature that allows users to generate a random email address for apps when signing in, so they never need to…
DetailsStarting this week, everyone on Twitter now has the option to “hide replies” on their tweets, a feature the company started testing earlier this year and one of several new ideas to improve the state of conversation on the platform. There are other, bolder ideas potentially coming down the pike, too: an option to disable…
DetailsA few weeks ago, we were talking about whether companies like Facebook and Twitter should ban all paid political advertising from their platforms. Now the debate has narrowed to a secondary question: Where political ads are allowed, should their micro-targeting be prohibited? Google is the first to make this restriction formal policy: The company announced…
DetailsIt’s become a veritable rite of passage for humans settling into their first apartments: Assemble a piece of Ikea furniture from a cryptic set of pictures without having either you, or the item in question, fall apart.What better way, thought researchers at the University of Southern California, to torture teach robots to manipulate the world…
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