The holidays haven’t started yet, but we’re already looking forward to next year when, almost immediately, some of the Engadget team will head to Las Vegas for the biggest annual tech conference. Business pitches, both legitimate and unsolicited, are already filling our inboxes and spam folders, so what are we excited about?
Excited can not be the word, but we expect that AI will become even more pervasive in good and overhyped ways There will also be the usual slew of new processors and subsequent laptops. We expect NVIDIA to debut its long-awaited RTX 5000 video cards at CES, while AMD CEO Lisa Su has confirmed that we’ll see next-generation RDNA 4 GPUs early next year. While 2024 was a year of endless PC AI hype, 2025 could be a year of reckoning. Microsoft’s long-delayed callback feature is slowly rolling out to more users, for example, but it’s still facing struggles. PC makers in 2025 will really have to show that their new AI-connected devices can live up to their claims.
There are also audio products, EVs, flying EVs (!) and more. Check out the full Preview CES 2024.
– Matt Smith
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More than 100 million people use the site every day.
Cementing its status as the fastest growing social network ever (with a heavy nepo-baby lift from Instagram), Threads has hit 300 million users, with more than 100 million people using the site every day . We could see some big changes for Threads as Meta capitalizes on that growth. The company said it plans to experience the first announcements for the phones in early 2025, according to a recent report in The information.
While it’s still a long way off, Zuckerberg has repeatedly speculated that Threads has a “good chance” of becoming the company’s next billion-user app.
The social media app is just a few weeks away from a potential ban.
It’s a tale of two social networks today. After a federal court last week denied TikTok’s request to delay a law that could ban the app in the United States, the company is now turning to the Supreme Court to buy time. The social media company asked the court to temporarily block the law. The company, which argues the law is unconstitutional, lost its initial legal challenge earlier this month. The company then asked for a delay in the implementation of the law, saying that President-elect Donald Trump had said that he would “save” TikTok. That request was denied on Friday. TikTok now hopes that the Supreme Court will intervene to suspend the law, otherwise, app stores and internet service providers will start blocking TikTok next month.
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