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• The Miss America pageant will take place in Orlando on Sunday.
• More than 50 women from across America will make their cases for the crown.
• The contestants include a national figure skater, a biomedical systems engineer, and a trauma nurse.

It's almost time to crown the next Miss America.

The 2025 pageant will take place in Orlando

• The US Surgeon General released a report directly linking alcohol to cancer.
• A BI analysis found that spending on most kinds of alcohol has declined — especially among young adults.
• It's reflective of Gen Z's shifting habits when it comes to

Sony

Be it for the Walkman portables and Trinitron TVs of old or the PlayStation consoles, Alpha cameras and superlative headphones of the twenty-first century, Sony has long been a mainstay at CES. But for the past couple of years at the world's biggest electronics trade show, Sony has opted to focus on a different field: Automotive. The Afeela electric vehicle dominated Sony's 2023 and 2024 CES

• Puerto Rico's power was restored after a New Year's Eve blackout sent the island into darkness.
• Still, the island's power company warned that there could be more

• Republicans nearly unanimously reelected Mike Johnson as speaker of the House.
• It avoids what could've been an early embarrassment for Trump and the GOP.
• After winning, Johnson pledged to "drastically cut back the size and

TL;DR: Live stream Australia vs. India for free on 7Plus. Access this free streaming site from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

The festive season is over, but there is no need to be down about the prospect of normality returning. The final Test match in the series between Australia and India is here to brighten the moods of fans around the world.

If you want to watch Australia vs. India (5th

Meta has nuked a bunch of its AI-generated profiles from Facebook Instagram, the company confirmed, after the AI characters prompted widespread outrage and ridicule from users on social media.

The AI-generated profiles, which were labeled as “AI managed by Meta,” launched in September of 2023, rolling out alongside the company’s celebrity-branded AI chatbots (also discontinued). Meta doesn’t seem

• Pocket.watch is betting on the podcast boom and partnering with GoKidGo to launch shows.
• The studio is creating podcasts for kids focused on music and mystery content.
• Two execs broke down the strategy and why the studio is focused on audio content in 2025.

2024 was a big year for podc

For those of us who don’t ever seem to know where our keys, wallets, and remote controls have gone.

Read the full story at The Verge.

Samsung and Google are ready to push a new standard, Eclipsa Audio. This format will enable 3D audio experiences on certain YouTube videos later this year, with support available across Samsung’s 2025 lineup of TVs and soundbars. Over the years, Samsung notably hasn’t supported Dolby Vision HDR for dynamic HDR metadata, choosing instead to promote its

Time to get into the habit of writing "2025" instead of 2024, and the year may have just begun, but the Engadget team is already working hard for CES 2025. This weekend, many from the Engadget team will be flying to Las Vegas, where we’ll be covering tech’s biggest annual conference. We've scoured our bursting inboxes, full of pitches from companies that are planning to be there, and meticulously