Mat Smith heads up Engadget’s daily newsletter from London, UK. He has worked at Engadget for over a decade and has covered console gaming, flagship smartphones, the Apple Watch and fitness tech that promises to make him faster or stronger. He’s currently learning how to backflip. Mat has previously written for The Guardian, The Times (UK) and the BBC, and speaks fluent Japanese. He sings the praises of his Instant Pot and makes regular kitchen gadget purchases that he usually regrets.
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The Morning After: Apple is still working on a rotating iPad-like tabletop device
It might have a robotic arm.The Morning After: The biggest reveals from Google’s Pixel 2024 event
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Taskmaster VR doesn’t quite deliver on the promise of the TV show
A great show doesn’t translate to a great VR game.The Morning After: Instagram endorses the photo dump
When 10 images doesn't cut it at brunch.The Morning After: Humane AI Pins are being returned faster than the company can sell them
When hype transforms into bad reviews.The Morning After: US judge rules that Google ‘is a monopolist’ in search
The ruling comes from a 2020 DOJ lawsuit against the company.The Morning After: Meta is reportedly offering millions to get Hollywood voices into its AI projects
But would you want that? For millions, maybe?The Morning After: Squid Game returns on December 26
Hard-boiled eggs and drama.The Morning After: Google dismisses Elon Musk’s claim that autocomplete interfered in the election
He claimed there was a ‘search ban’ on Donald Trump.The Morning After: Mark Zuckerberg is surprisingly angry about closed platforms
Clad in leather, he dropped the f-bomb.Samsung Galaxy Flip 6 review: A slightly better foldable aimed at everyone
But Samsung's resting on its laurels.The Morning After: Apple Intelligence may not arrive with iOS 18
You may have to wait til iOS 18.1.The Morning After: OpenAI reveals its AI-powered search engine, SearchGPT
Literally what Google feared.The Morning After: Netflix’s new gaming boss is a former Epic Games exec
The streamer still wants to make its gaming ambitions happen.The Morning After: Condé Nast is the latest media company to accuse AI search engine Perplexity of plagiarism
It’s still unknown whether the startup is breaking rules and scraping sites for its AI model.