By cryptoadmin 
Welcome to 2025. Wave farewell to yesteryear with the largest losers in tech. Choosing our favourite villains in 2024 was difficult when it merely wasn’t a good time for tech. With the miserable spiral that’s social media, the will-they-or-won’t-they dance of banning TikTok within the US and the neverending edited and deepfaked content material, it’s simply so noisy. Is it the web of slop? Is it exhaustion? Is it AIs speaking to AIs about AIs? In between all that, there’s the obsolescence of connectors previous, Intel’s main struggles to show round its fortunes, and, ugh, these AI assistants.
And, as a result of it's a brand new 12 months, we'll be making some modifications to the Engadget publication within the subsequent few weeks. We'll nonetheless be hitting the largest tech tales and occasions, but additionally fold in additional context, extra writers and editors and even some options from Engadget's previous. Is there one thing you'd wish to see in your inbox? Get in contact.
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Tintin dancing to Rhapsody in Blue.
It's the beginning of a brand new 12 months, and a contemporary crop of inventive works have entered the general public area. In the present day, many supplies copyrighted in 1929 and sound recordings from 1924 grow to be honest sport to freely adapt, reuse, copy and share. A number of seminal administrators debuted their first tasks with sound, corresponding to Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail and Cecil B. DeMille's Dynamite. 1929 was additionally the 12 months when Walt Disney directed the long-lasting Skeleton Dance quick animated by Ub Iwerks, in addition to when Mickey Mouse starred in his first talkie.
The primary PlayStation Plus video games of 2025 embrace The Stanley Parable and Suicide Squad
Two video games from a decade in the past and a essential flop.
Sony simply revealed the primary set of PlayStation Plus video games in 2025 out there for all subscribers. This month contains Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Want for Velocity Scorching Pursuit Remastered and The Stanley Parable: Extremely Deluxe. Suicide Squad is a stunning addition: It went by way of a number of delays, obtained largely destructive evaluations and reportedly price Warner Bros. some $200 million. Builders introduced that the present season of content material could be its final, although there aren’t any plans to close the sport down but. So play it when you… can?
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