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As 2025 approaches, we take stock of all our… reviews. Yes, everything we’ve pointed out, prodded, and criticized this year. With the inevitable smartphone and laptop upgrades (it’s been a particularly strong year for Pixel phones, as Apple continues to offer a premium phone experience with pro iPhones), one It’s also a year of amazing drones and cameras, keeping Steve Dent. busy.
Unfortunately, we can’t test everything, so we try to balance devices from companies with a track record for making things people will buy and the weird, interesting, different ones. products and services. We’ve rounded up the best gaming laptops of 2024 and Apple’s continued strong form with Apple Silicon-powered MacBooks.
Oh, and we’ve included the other side of the coin: two of the worst products we’ve tested. Surprise! They feature a lot of AI.
— Matt Smith
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More curved screens.
LG just announced several new OLED monitors before the start of CES 2025. The new UltraGear GX9 series features curved WOLED panels, webOS, and an anti-glare, low-reflection coating. The standout is a 45-inch, 5K2K bendable screen that can move “from completely flat to a 900R curvature in seconds,” according to LG.
An entire series is coming to Disney+.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, taking us back to Peter Parker’s early days as a high school superhero. The art leans towards a classic comic book style, and it seems like the story itself is a departure from the MCU version of things.
This year’s “extreme weather” caused drought, fire, typhoon and flood.
2023 will be the hottest year on record. This past year was on track to beat it. We did it, guys. The World Weather Attribution (WWA) released its annual “Extreme Weather” report showing how a record 34.34 Fahrenheit increase in man-made warming from last year is causing “unrelenting heat waves, droughts, fires, hurricanes and floods.” The report records 219 events from 2024 that meet its “trigger criteria” for identifying impactful weather events. In related stories, here are best depressing games of 2024. No joke.
