Apple Using Shazam to Predict 50 Breakthrough Music Artists This Year Apple today launched a new Shazam Fast Forward 2025 website that will spotlight 50 music artists who are poised to have a breakthrough year. The list of artists will be revealed on a genre-by-genre basis over the next five days, starting with dance/electronic artists today. Rising artists in the Latin, Country/Rock, Pop, Hip-Hop, and R&B genres…

India Plans Subsidies to Boost Apple’s Production Efforts India is set to implement a series of subsidies and tariff reductions designed to lower production costs for Apple and other smartphone manufacturers as part of its broader effort to become a global electronics manufacturing hub (via Bloomberg). India is proposing $2.7 billion in financial incentives and tariff adjustments targeting the electro…

Microsoft would really like you to stop using Windows 10 this year Photo by Chris Welch / The VergeIt’s 2025, and Microsoft is kicking off the year by reminding everyone that support for Windows 10 ends in October. While the company has been trying to entice Windows 10 users to upgrade to Windows 11 with full-screen prompts throughout 2024, it’s now calling 2025 “the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh.” Last yea…

This $400 Brisk It smart grill has generative AI Image: Brisk ItBarbecue tech startup Brisk It has unveiled its latest smart grill at CES, which uses generative AI to automate cooking and create personalized recipes. The $399 Zelos 450 electric wood pellet smoker features 450 square inches of cooking space and Wi-Fi connectivity for remotely adjusting settings and monitoring food as it cooks v…

Intel’s new Core Ultra 200HX series CPUs are ready for next-gen gaming laptops Image: IntelIntel is announcing the rest of the Arrow Lake family of CPUs at CES today, with options for thin-and-light laptops all the way up to gaming notebooks. These mobile processors will appear in many of the computers being announced at CES this week, with the 200HX series being paired with next-gen GPUs we’re expecting Nvidia to announce…

This home security camera can also monitor for falls and call for help The camera uses AI to help identify falls even when the subject is partially obscured. | Photo: Kami VisionHome security company Kami Vision is introducing a new camera that’s designed especially for seniors living on their own. The Kami Fall Detect Camera monitors for falls and can alert families or caregivers to take action. The company has be…

Ring is upgrading its outdoor cameras with 2K resolution (even if you already own them) The Floodlight Cam Pro is our pick for the best overall outdoor floodlight camera. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The VergeRing is doing something rare for a technology brand: upgrading devices that customers have already purchased. The company is updating its outdoor cameras to boost video resolution, but it’s not just new customers who w…

Ring is making a smart smoke alarm Kidde’s new smart smoke and combination smoke + CO alarms with Ring work in the Ring app and don’t require a Ring Alarm system. | Image: Ring Ring has announced a new partnership with fire safety brand Kidde to launch smart smoke and carbon monoxide alarms that connect to the Ring app via Wi-Fi and send alerts to your phone when the alarms are t…

This portable security camera has a week of free cloud recording Image: XthingsAt last year’s CES, we heard from the company behind Ultraloq and U-tec about the $69 Ulticam Dot, a portable security camera that was supposed to launch over the summer. But according to Xthings chief strategy officer Matthew Brown, it delayed the launch until Q1 2025 in part to work on what it considers a “disruptive” feature: gi…

Schlage’s sleek new smart lock ditches keys for UWB The Sense Pro is Schlage’s first lock to support Matter; it will also work with a new UWB-powered auto-unlocking feature. | Image: Schlage It’s a bit of a moment for the humble door lock. Schlage, one of the oldest lock makers in the US, just launched its first-ever smart door lock without a keyway. But that’s not the most exciting part: the Sch…

OWC Debuts 40Gbps USB4 Cables Up to 15 Feet Long OWC has introduced two new active optical USB4 cables offering extended lengths and high-speed connectivity at more competitive prices than Apple’s only long Thunderbolt 4 cable offering. The cables are available in 3-meter (approximately 10 feet) and 4.5-meter (15 feet) lengths, priced at $98.99 and $129.99 respectively. Both cables support da…

MicroStrategy Buys 1,070 BTC, Plans to Raise Up to $2B Through Preferred Stock Offering MicroStrategy Purchases More Bitcoin, Adding to Holdings for 9th Consecutive Week.

Apple, Google, and Samsung will accept Matter certification of smart home products Illustration: The VergeBuying a smart home product today means checking which ecosystems it works with by looking for the little “Works with Apple Home” or “Works with Google” badge on the package. Matter was supposed to get rid of those because if a product works with Matter, it should work with all the big smart home platforms. That hasn’t hap…

The ElliQ companion robot can now send health updates to a caregiver Image: Intuition RoboticsIntuition Robotics introduced the ElliQ Caregiver Solution on Monday, an AI-powered system that includes the ElliQ companion robot and a new Caregiver app to help caregivers monitor the health of homebound seniors. Originally, the bobblehead-esque animatronic was mainly a friendly looking Amazon Alexa-like voice assistan…

TiVo-powered TVs are coming to the US Image: TiVoMore than a year after launching its smart TV platform in Europe, TiVo is now bringing it to the US. The company’s putting its TiVo OS platform inside a new Sharp TV arriving as soon as February, rivaling the likes of Roku, Google TV, and Amazon’s Fire TV. TiVo first announced TiVo OS in 2022, but the platform didn’t actually launch u…

This outdoor security cam adds a second camera that moves and zooms The HybridCam Duo security camera system. | Image: TapoHome security cameras are usually good at getting a wide shot of your yard and whatever’s passing through it — but a new camera can help you get a close-up on your visitors, too. Tapo’s new HybridCam Duo camera sticks two cameras together: a more traditional security camera with a wide-angle…

Tapo’s palm-scanning door lock promises a full year of battery life The PalmKey door lock from Tapo has a fingerprint reader and a camera for scanning your palm. | Image: TapoTapo is the latest brand trying to let you open your front door with just a wave of your palm. The company announced the PalmKey smart door lock today, which lets you enter the house with a PIN, a fingerprint, or a palm scan. The palm scann…

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