What to anticipate at CES 2025

The vacations haven’t even kicked off, however we’re already seeking to subsequent yr when, nearly instantly, a few of the Engadget staff will head to Las Vegas for tech’s biggest annual conference. The pitches from corporations, each legit and unhinged, are already filling our inboxes and spam tabs, so what are we enthusiastic about?

Excited won’t be the phrase, however we count on AI to change into much more pervasive in good and overhyped methods. There can even be the standard slew of latest processors and subsequent laptops. We count on NVIDIA to debut its long-awaited RTX 5000 video playing cards at CES, whereas AMD CEO Lisa Su has confirmed we’ll see next-generation RDNA 4 GPUs early subsequent yr. Whereas 2024 was a yr of infinite AI PC hype, 2025 is likely to be a yr of reckoning. Microsoft’s long-delayed Recall characteristic is slowly trickling out to extra customers, for instance, however continues to be dealing with struggles. PC makers in 2025 should really show their new AI-laced gadgets can reside as much as their claims.

There are additionally audio merchandise, EVs, flying EVs (!) and extra. Try the total CES 2024 preview.

— Mat Smith

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Greater than 100 million folks use the location every single day.

Cementing its standing because the quickest rising social community ever (with a heavy nepo-baby elevate from Instagram), Threads has hit 300 million customers, with over 100 million folks utilizing the location every single day. We may see some massive modifications for Threads as Meta capitalizes on that progress. The corporate reportedly has plans to experiment with the primary adverts for threads in early 2025, in keeping with a latest report in The Data.

Whereas it’s nonetheless a methods off, Zuckerberg has repeatedly speculated that Threads has a “good likelihood” of changing into the corporate’s subsequent billion-user app.

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The social media app is only a few weeks away from a possible ban.

It’s a story of two social media networks right this moment. After a federal courtroom final week denied TikTok’s request to delay a legislation that might ban the app in the US, the corporate is now turning to the Supreme Court docket to purchase time. The social media firm has requested the courtroom to briefly block the legislation. The corporate, which argues the legislation is unconstitutional, misplaced its preliminary authorized problem earlier this month. The corporate then requested a delay of the legislation’s implementation, saying President-elect Donald Trump had mentioned he would “save” TikTok. That request was denied on Friday. TikTok is now hoping the Supreme Court docket will intervene to droop the legislation, in any other case, app shops and web service suppliers will start blocking TikTok subsequent month.

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