The holidays haven’t even started yet, but we’re already looking ahead to next year, when almost immediately some of Engadget’s team members will be heading to Las Vegas for tech’s biggest annual conference. Offers from companies, both legitimate and unverified, are already flooding our inboxes and spam tabs, so what are we excited about?
Excited might not be the right word, but we expect AI to become even more pervasive in good and over-hyped ways. There will be a flood of new processors and subsequent laptops, as usual. We expect NVIDIA to introduce its long-awaited RTX 5000 video cards at CES, while AMD CEO Lisa Su has confirmed we’ll see next-generation RDNA 4 GPUs early next year.
While 2024 was the year of endless AI PC hype, 2025 might be the year of computation. For example, Microsoft’s long-delayed recall feature is slowly reaching more users, but still faces struggles. In 2025 PC makers will really have to prove that their new AI-equipped devices can live up to their claims.
Cementing its position as the fastest-growing social network ever (with a heavy napo-baby lift from Instagram), Threads has hit 300 million users, with more than 100 million people using the site every day. With Meta taking advantage of that growth we could see some big changes for Threads. According to a recent report from The Information, the company reportedly plans to experiment with the first ads for Threads in early 2025.
Today it’s a tale of two social media networks. 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 has asked the court to temporarily halt the law.
The company, which calls the law unconstitutional, lost its initial legal challenge earlier this month.
The company then requested a delay in the law’s implementation, saying President-elect Donald Trump had said he would “save” TikTok. That request was denied on Friday. TikTok is now hoping the Supreme Court will intervene to suspend the law, otherwise, app stores and internet service providers will begin blocking TikTok next month.
Today it’s a tale of two social media networks. 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 has asked the court to temporarily halt the law.
The company, which argues the law is unconstitutional, lost its initial legal challenge earlier this month. The company then requested a delay in the law’s implementation, saying President-elect Donald Trump had said he would “save” TikTok.
That request was denied on Friday. TikTok is now hoping the Supreme Court will intervene to suspend the law, otherwise, app stores and internet service providers will begin blocking TikTok next month.