Engadget Podcast: iPhone 16e review and Amazon's AI-powered Alexa+

The keyword for the iPhone 16e seems to be "compromise." In this episode, Devindra chats with Cherlynn about her iPhone 16e review and try to figure out who this phone is actually for. Also, [...]

Revenge of the Covid Conspiracy Theorists

After years of GOP attacks on US health agencies, Trump appointees are poised to bring Covid-19 conspiracies to their leadership of US agencies. Federal workers are scared of what comes next. [...]

Engadget Podcast: We've survived two days of CES 2025

In this bonus episode, Cherlynn and Devindra discuss the latest innovations in robot vacuums, new AI PC hardware from AMD and Intel, and Dell's decision to nuke its PC brands in favor of Apple-es [...]

Warmer-sounding LLMs are more likely to repeat false information and conspiracy theories

A research team at the University of Oxford set out to make language models sound warmer and more empathetic, but ran into some unexpected side effects.<br /> The article Warmer-sounding LLMs ar [...]

Super Bowl conspiracy theorists found the latest evidence the NFL rigged the script

No matter how much NFL fans want to believe it, the NFL is not rigged. But that doesn't stop the viral posts about the "script." [...]

Paris court finds 10 people guilty of cyberbullying Brigitte Macron

A Paris court has found 10 people guilty of cyberbullying Brigitte Macron, wife of President of France Emmanuel Macron, the BBC reports. The judge found that the defendants made false claims about Mac [...]

Five plead guilty to helping North Koreans pretend to be US-based IT workers

The US Department of Justice has announced that five people have pleaded guilty to helping North Koreans defraud US companies by pretending to be US-based remote workers. North Korea has previously us [...]

watchOS 26 preview: It's the little things

At WWDC 2025, Apple announced it was replacing the sequential numbering for OS versions and with year numbers. So instead of watchOS 12, I’ve spent the past two weeks with the public beta of watchOS [...]

RFK Jr.’s MAHA wants to make chemtrail conspiracy theories great again

It's unclear if Kennedy will follow through, but he supports the conspiracy theory. [...]